(TIL) Git: Resetting A Reset
Sometimes we run commands like git reset --hard HEAD~ when we shouldn’t have. We wish we could undo what we’ve done, but the commit we’ve reset is gone forev...
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(TIL) Git: Accessing A Lost Commit
If you have lost track of a recent commit (perhaps you did a reset), you can generally still get it back. Run git reflog and look through the output to see i...
(TIL) Git: Reference A Commit Via Commit Message Pattern Matching
Generally when referencing a commit, you’ll use the SHA or a portion of the SHA. For example with git-show:
(TIL) Git: Split Up a Commit, Rewrite History
When working on a branch with multiple commits, you can “go back in time” and revise previous commits any way you please.
(TIL) Git: Git Log With Authors
In my never-ending quest to better summarize my work at the end of the day using computers, I discovered today the Git --author flag. It works like this: