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Recover a branch when you know the SHA, but don't have it locally
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gistfile1.sh
http -v -a username:password POST https://api.github.com/repos/owner/repo/git/refs ref="refs/heads/recovered_branch" sha="290b2090a741d35edd67f15c74b2d43299df8995"
git fetch
git checkout recovered_branch
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Example uses httpie command line utility, but you could create a curl equivalent.

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