Comments on Feeding the Cloud: Recovering lost git commits

git gc is not so dangerous! The newer versions wil...

2008-12-14T08:32:00.000+13:00

git gc is not so dangerous! The newer versions will even let be unreferenced loose objects newer than _2_weeks_, to be on the safe side.. which means that you have a lot of time to recover your suff.

This feature is brough to you by the reflog. Git g...

2008-12-13T22:59:00.000+13:00

This feature is brough to you by the reflog. Git gc will trucate the reflog to 90 days by default (can be changed or turned off) and commits referenced by reflog will not be pruned until the reflog itself is truncated.

Note, that the reflog keeps complete history of the ref, so this way you can ask what state your branch was before a pull, rebase, n days ago etc.

If you just need to reset to what the tip of the c...

2008-12-13T10:55:00.000+13:00

If you just need to reset to what the tip of the current branch was before you fucked up you can run git reset --hard HEAD@{1}