How to recover a dropped stash in Git?

Question

I frequently use git stash and git stash pop to save and restore changes in my working tree. Yesterday I had some changes in my working tree that I

Answer 1

I liked Aristotle's approach, but didn't like using GITK... as I'm used to using GIT from the command line.

Instead, I took the dangling commits and output the code to a DIFF file for review in my code editor.

git show $( git fsck --no-reflog | awk '/dangling commit/ {print $3}' ) > ~/stash_recovery.diff

Now you can load up the resulting diff/txt file (its in your home folder) into your txt editor and see the actual code and resulting SHA.

Then just use

git stash apply ad38abbf76e26c803b27a6079348192d32f52219