Git - Undo Overwriting a Branch

Question

Instead of

git checkout <mybranchname>

I did

git checkout -B <mybranchname>

which has overridden the branch I wanted to switch to with the branch I was switching from.

Is there a way to undo this?

Answer 1

Type git reflog . There you should see a checkout of your renamed branch. Something like:

56d04f9 HEAD@{8}: checkout: commit-message of your missing branch

The first column is the hash of the commit. So you copy the hash and type git checkout <hash> . In the example it would be git checkout 56d04f9 . This should checkout your missing branch and you can rename it back.