I know when I have to go to the reflog that I've really fucked up
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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You haven't really fucked up until you've run garbage collection.
One thing that is not made clear in the article, is that there is a separate reflog for HEAD, and separate reflogs for individual branches.
HEAD reflog logs changes such as "checkout: moving from next to main". Branch reflog logs changes such as "branch: Created from HEAD" (first entry in branch reflog). Most are common to both (i.e. git logs both to HEAD reflog and the reflog of currently checked out branch).
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