11 mo. ago • 100%

Every engineer should understand git reflog

s a software engineer, you’ve probably wondered how Git’s reflog works under the hood. That’s where this guide comes in.

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

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

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Learned something new today. Thank you.

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