Every engineer should understand git reflog

https://graphite.dev/blog/every-engineer-should-understand-git-reflog

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swunchy@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I know when I have to go to the reflog that I've really fucked up

sik0fewl@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

You haven't really fucked up until you've run garbage collection.

jnareb@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y

One thing that is not made clear in the article, is that there is a separate reflog for HEAD, and separate reflogs for individual branches.

HEAD reflog logs changes such as "checkout: moving from next to main". Branch reflog logs changes such as "branch: Created from HEAD" (first entry in branch reflog). Most are common to both (i.e. git logs both to HEAD reflog and the reflog of currently checked out branch).

onlinepersona@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y

Learned something new today. Thank you.