Reflogs (Accident Recovery)

Reflogs (reference logs) are Git's local history of performed actions.

Reflogs track actions such as commits, checkouts, merges, rebases, resets, and other operations that change the position of a branch or HEAD.

Reflogs are helpful when you have accidentally deleted or lost commits, branches, or other references after destructive actions.

• git reflog: List all reflog entries.

  Each entry includes a hash, reference syntax, a description of the action, and additional information about that action.

  • show <branch_name> - List only the reflogs associated with the specified branch.
  • --date=iso- Display reflog entries with ISO 8601 formatted timestamps.

  After identifying the desired action in the reflog, you can use the appropriate method described in Discarding Changes together with the reflog hash to perform recovery.