Recently while working on Git I had accidentally lost my commits. But since Git has a fantastic revision control system, it remembers what I committed. In other words, it records where its HEAD is every time user commits. Here’s is the example of how I got my lost commits back.<\/p>\n
Below are my 5 recent Commits<\/p>\n
[shell]git log -5 –pretty=oneline
\nea007ac3b7d1746d47ed7271a7cfcf262c2df907 Refactored Person Class
\n25e48aefec136a0c3ec4d3c09ee0f6f74244db0e modified User controller
\n03aa5f44ee9293a2d197edd060720682d6daddb5 modified readMe File
\nd3d424dcaeddfb8078cc0d36886aa86a8b6da943 added ipr file to gitignore
\n667227783e283c517f4bc879c129f50889f8709c another changes
\n[\/shell]<\/p>\n
I wanted to undo my changes to User controller and I did a hard reset to my commits.<\/p>\n
[shell]git reset –hard 03aa5f44ee9293a2d197edd060720682d6daddb5
\nHEAD is now at 03aa5f4 modified readMe File[\/shell]<\/p>\n
And Head is now set to commit “modified readMe File”. But later it came to my mind that I had also lost refactoring I did to Person class. If Now I check my logs it would be like this.<\/p>\n
[shell]git log -5 –pretty=oneline
\n03aa5f44ee9293a2d197edd060720682d6daddb5 modified readMe File
\nd3d424dcaeddfb8078cc0d36886aa86a8b6da943 added ipr file to gitignore
\n667227783e283c517f4bc879c129f50889f8709c another changes
\n80eb4396fb70c8f59f624fc3e5a2601cd6b986a3 more changes to Demo File
\n16b6202e925093b08e10a68037e7c64b450f0173 dummy commit[\/shell]<\/p>\n
But since Git is fantastic it always comes to rescue, as I told earlier Git always records where HEAD was every time I commit, which can be seen with Git\u00a0reflog command.<\/p>\n
[shell]git reflog
\n03aa5f4 HEAD@{0}: 03aa5f44ee9293a2d197edd060720682d6daddb5: updating HEAD
\nea007ac HEAD@{1}: commit: Refactored Person Class
\n25e48ae HEAD@{2}: commit: modified User controller
\n03aa5f4 HEAD@{3}: commit: modified readMe File
\nd3d424d HEAD@{4}: commit: added ipr file to gitignore
\n6672277 HEAD@{5}: commit: another changes
\n80eb439 HEAD@{6}: commit: more changes to Demo File
\n16b6202 HEAD@{7}: commit: dummy commit
\n[\/shell]<\/p>\n
To get my lost changes all I did was to create a new branch with the lost commit that I wanted back. So here I am creating a branch named “lostCommit” with hash “ea007ac”.<\/p>\n
[shell]git branch lostCommit ea007ac[\/shell]<\/p>\n
And Now when I checkout my lostCommit branch and check log. Here is what it shows.<\/p>\n
[shell]
\ngit log -5 –pretty=oneline
\nea007ac3b7d1746d47ed7271a7cfcf262c2df907 Refactored Person Class
\n25e48aefec136a0c3ec4d3c09ee0f6f74244db0e modified User controller
\n03aa5f44ee9293a2d197edd060720682d6daddb5 modified readMe File
\nd3d424dcaeddfb8078cc0d36886aa86a8b6da943 added ipr file to gitignore
\n667227783e283c517f4bc879c129f50889f8709c another changes [\/shell]<\/p>\n
I got my lost commits. And all other changes that I thought were lost.<\/p>\n