Re: can git reset or checkout be reverted?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 6, 2009, 14:47 UTC
Message-ID: <m3vdrnvczd.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20090206141940.GB7231@b2j>

bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> writes:

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> If I want to recall a old version of testing by
> 
> git reset --hard sha1
> or
> git checkout sha1
> 
> then git log does not show anything beyond that commit. It does give
> some warning and recommend -b switch next time.  If I only do that by
> accident or ignorance.  How to revert to the original HEAD?

  git checkout ORIG_HEAD

or

  git checkout HEAD@{1}

You can check it out wrt. second form using "git reflog" ("git log -g").

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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