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Can I recover a deleted git branch which I did not save locally?

I deleted a git branch from my server with the command

git push origin :feature-my-branch

I did not have the branch checked out/saved locally. Is there some way I could recover this branch or is it gone forever?

When I do

git branch --all

I cannot see feature-my-branch. When I do

git reflog --no-abbrev

I can not find the tip of feature-my-branch.

Solution

  • I managed to recover my branch by doing

    git fsck --dangling

    where I found a dangling commit which was the head of feature-my-branch. Then I recovered feature-my-branch and pushed it to the server:

    git branch feature-my-branch <commit-id>
git push origin feature-my-branch