git reflog: recover work after a hard reset

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You did a hard reset and your work vanished. It’s not gone. Run git reflog.

Git logged every place HEAD has been. Find the state you want, copy the hash, and git reset --hard to that hash. Your work is back like nothing happened.

Reflog is your undo for the undo.

Want the full walkthrough with examples? I covered it here: Recovering lost commits with git reflog

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