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git reflog - Where HEAD Has Been

git keeps a local log of your reference moves - a 'lost' commit is usually a lost pointer, and the reflog hands it back

git reflog - Where HEAD Has Been

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a new commit whose change is the exact inverse of a bad one - history only ever grows

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