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

In OSX with git v2.6.4, I just run git stash drop accidentally, then I found it by going trough below steps

If you know name of the stash then use:

$ git fsck --unreachable | grep commit | cut -c 20- | xargs git show | grep -B 6 -A 2 <name of the stash>

otherwise you will find ID from the result by manually with:

$ git fsck --unreachable | grep commit | cut -c 20- | xargs git show

Then when you find the commit-id just hit the git stash apply {commit-id}

Hope this helps someone quickly