git-恢复通过检出删除的提交

Question

I was 2 commits ahead of Github. I did git checkout and these commits were deleted. I tried recover the files in .git folder to a previous version using the Dropbox history. I ran git status and showed that I was again 2 commits ahead, I got happy, commited and pushed to Github only to see that I didn't recover at all.

tl;dr : Lost 2 commits with git checkout

Answer 1

Just use git reflog to recover the commits.

1. Run git reflog
2. Pick a reflog commit id that is just before the checkout
3. Run git reset --hard commit_id_before_checkout to get to a state just before you ran git checkout .