title: How to recover a deleted remote branch
body: <p>Our remote master branch was deleted. I have a local copy of the master repo but it is a few revs out of date. I'm able to see the branch in github by plugging the last known commit hash into the URL, but have been unsuccessful at restoring it. I've tried several steps to recover it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>git reset --hard 16deddc05cb53dfaa2d198b1cf264416e19255e9
  fatal: Could not parse object '16deddc05cb53dfaa2d198b1cf264416e19255e9'
  
  git checkout 16deddc05cb53dfaa2d198b1cf264416e19255e9
  fatal: reference is not a tree: 16deddc05cb53dfaa2d198b1cf264416e19255e9
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Understandable since master no longer exists. What are my options to recover here?</p>