5.2.5. git reflog - What is “my history”, i.e. what was I doing?

git reflog   records updates to objects in the local repository.

Safety net

git reflog should be your go to place if you suspect having “lost” some commits.

During reset-ting or rebase-ing commits can become de-referenced making them difficult to access.

With git reflog allows you find such commits again.

Example: git reflog

git log --format=oneline

435... (HEAD -> main) Reapply "Initial commit"
cae... Revert "Initial commit"
349... (origin/main, origin/HEAD) Initial commit

git reflog

435... (HEAD -> main) HEAD@{0}: revert: Reapply "Initial commit"
cae... HEAD@{1}: revert: Revert "Initial commit"
349... (origin/main, origin/HEAD) HEAD@{2}: checkout: moving from dev/14-... to main
1d2... (origin/dev/14-..., dev/14-...) HEAD@{3}: checkout: moving from main to dev/14-...
349... (origin/main, origin/HEAD) HEAD@{4}: clone: from github.com:j-i-l/test.git