git "lost" my commit, sort of, log giving conflicting results

Something really strange here I cannot figure out.

Last night I committed some files.

About lunch time today I realised that the files has "lost" all the changes I'd committed yesterday.

I went back through the git log results and sure enough the commit was there. I checked the contents by doing a git diff and the commit contains the changes. However ....

If I do a git log I can see the commit in the list of all commits. If I do a commit log on one of the files in the commit, I see every commit except the one from last night. If I do a git show to display the files in the commit the specific file is there. Sooooo

git log - shows the commit git show - shows the开发者_C百科 files in the commit git log file - list every commit but the one I'm interested in !!

I also cannot figure out how to tell what killed the committed changes.

Anyone got any clues? I like git, but it's a real pain in the rear to figure out sometimes.

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Try to do a git checkout on the directory and see if that has any effect. If that doesn't update them, delete them and then do a git checkout on the files.

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Make sure you haven't committed those files while being on a detached head.
(git branch --all would not mention any current branch)

The commit would be there, but not accessible from a branch.