The git reflog command (or git log -g) can use a custom "pretty format". A ton of things are customizable in the pretty format. But although the reflog designator %gd can take two formats, ...

I have an automated process that creates a temporary commit and stash, does some stuff, and then pops the stash and reverts the commit. After doing this a few times, the automated git gc complains ...

I want list use git reflog format, and show it as sorted by date with (--date=relative) flag. git reflog --format='%C(auto)%h %<|(17)%gd %C(blue)%cr%C(reset) %gs' has following output: $ git ...

I committed sensitive data to a single file on my main branch. I never pushed it. I can change HEAD to point to the previous commit with git reset HEAD^, but the commit is still hanging around as git ...

I recently made a commit and it was incorrect so I tried to reset it to another commit. Now I'm realizing that the commit had information we needed for our team. Can the GitHub organization's admin ...

Suppose I have a git repo with app.py and I accidentally include an API key (or other secret) as plaintext in app.py in a commit that I have not yet pushed to a remote (lets say on Github). To undo ...

Wouldn't the git upstream rebase "hard case" problem be solved if each branch carried a reference to its initial base commit (say branch@{base}) ? This initial base commit (stored under ...

Problem: accidentally did a git --amend and pushed it to a usb key from first computer pulled from the usb key to a second computer second computer repository is now corrupted git pull to first ...

My colleague did a series of careless pull/push operations. He end up in a situation where his local commit becomes missing I recovered his commit using git reflog. But I couldn't figure out why his ...

I have a question about git reflog: at the beginning of my project, when I did a git reflog, I was able to see all the steps up to my original git clone command. Today, git reflog no longer goes ...

Is there any way to view expired reflogs? I've been keeping a few local commit I made months ago on a local branch and I've kept it up to date with our remote branch by rebasing frequently. Somehow I'...

I have two branches, master and b1. When I'm on b1, 'git reflog show' displays all the changes to b1. However, after I switch to master and run 'git reflog show b1', it displays something different. ...

I'm the lone developer on a project where I'm working across multiple computers, some on VM. After doing a git clone of my repo on gitHub, calls to reflog only show items after the clone. How can I ...

I'm trying to recover code because I accidentally switched to a branch in eclipse and lost all my data, somehow (I still don't know what I did). When I open up my git reflog in command line, I see: ...

I tried the git reset --hard HEAD@{n} from git reflog and I lost everything with my current unstaged files :'( the unstaged files is the last git add I did, before then I tried git reset to the last ...