diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
index 1a432f2319..45c0bee50a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
@@ -65,8 +65,10 @@ index file and all SHA1 references in .git/refs/* as heads.
 	Be chatty.
 
 --lost-found::
-	Write dangling refs into .git/lost-found/commit/ or
-	.git/lost-found/other/, depending on type.
+	Write dangling objects into .git/lost-found/commit/ or
+	.git/lost-found/other/, depending on type.  If the object is
+	a blob, the contents are written into the file, rather than
+	its object name.
 
 It tests SHA1 and general object sanity, and it does full tracking of
 the resulting reachability and everything else. It prints out any
diff --git a/builtin-fsck.c b/builtin-fsck.c
index 350ec5e144..8d12287f03 100644
--- a/builtin-fsck.c
+++ b/builtin-fsck.c
@@ -152,7 +152,17 @@ static void check_unreachable_object(struct object *obj)
 			}
 			if (!(f = fopen(filename, "w")))
 				die("Could not open %s", filename);
-			fprintf(f, "%s\n", sha1_to_hex(obj->sha1));
+			if (obj->type == OBJ_BLOB) {
+				enum object_type type;
+				unsigned long size;
+				char *buf = read_sha1_file(obj->sha1,
+						&type, &size);
+				if (buf) {
+					fwrite(buf, size, 1, f);
+					free(buf);
+				}
+			} else
+				fprintf(f, "%s\n", sha1_to_hex(obj->sha1));
 			fclose(f);
 		}
 		return;