RE: undoing something

=== Re: === The answer was best only because in your previous question you wanted to ensure fast-forwardness, i.e. "git push . origin/dev:dev" without plus in front to cause it to fail if it is not fast-forward. === end ===

No, I don't want to ensure ff. The remote may have been changed in other ways. Though in that case I will avoid doing so; when it is not the case it's even more important to see that your local copy is different, and understand the tree, rather than blindly pulling.

=== Re: === If you know you have one unwanted commit you would want to discard at the tip of topic, you do not want fast-foward safety to kick in.

 (1) if you are on the topic branch, you can say "git reset --hard
HEAD^";
     or

=== end ===

It was a rebase, so the old value is not under the current, or even visible on the tree. That's why I needed the reflog to find it. Tagging it let it appear in gitk.

=== Re: ===
 (2) if you are not, you can obviously check out topic and do the above,
     or "git branch -f topic topic^".
=== end ===

As documented, this destroys the existing branch and makes a new one. That would, by design, blow away the reflog for that branch. What I want is a way to re-point it, and record that repointing =in= the reflog. That is, a command-line version that does what I can do with the GUI, but isn't limited to what I can point to with the mouse.

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