I have some files I'm looking for, but that I don't know where they are located in my git repository (both in space and time). I also speculate it is possible that both the files and the branch in which they reside might be deleted.
How could I list every file ever in existence in the whole git repository? I know deleted files / branches could pretty well have already been garbage collected, and well, there's nothing to do about it than to pray it didn't happen already.
Thanks!
This is a bit crazy, but it might do what you want:
#!/bin/sh content="$@" for hash in $({ git rev-list --objects --all git rev-list --objects -g --no-walk --all git rev-list --objects --no-walk \ $(git fsck --unreachable | grep '^unreachable commit' | cut -d' ' -f3) git fsck --unreachable | grep "^unreachable blob" | cut -d' ' -f3 } 2> /dev/null | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort | uniq); do if git cat-file blob $hash 2> /dev/null | grep -i $content > /dev/null ; then echo $hash fi done I tried to get absolutely every blob accessible, and look for a specific content in each of them.
You'll be able to do a git cat-file -p hash on each of the generated hashes and might find your lost file.
On a side note, I'm surprised to not see any nice way to list absolutely every object available in the repository. I was thinking of unpacking everything and go from there, that could be a better solution too.
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