Lost Last Git Commit

Question

I lost my last commit because I accidentally ran \"git reset --hard HEAD^\". Note: I didn\'t want to put the \"^\" at the end.

Is there any way to get it back? It wa

Answer 1

git makes it really easy to go back to a prior state and works very hard to prevent you from losing any data you've committed. It's this reason you should commit often. I've got a command git trash that does that git reset --hard state, but after writing a commit so that I can undo the hard reset if I need.

For the most recent state (i.e. your exact case), just do git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD to undo what you just did.

You can do a time-based reset: git reset --hard '@{5 minutes ago}' to put yourself in a prior state based on time (there are lots of options you can use, for example, git reset --hard '@{yesterday}' to pretend today never happened).

Otherwise, browse the git reflog output to find the thing before the action you feel put you in a bad state and reset to that.