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Recover Lost Git Commits, Branches and Force-Pushed History

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Linux & Systems intermediate 7 min read $0.01 Updated 2026-10-18

Recovery procedures for lost Git work: reflog lookup, restoring deleted branches, undoing rebase, reset and merge, finding dangling commits with fsck, recovering after a force-push, and the expiry windows that limit recovery.

A bad rebase, a hard reset or a force-push just ate your work. Git rarely deletes anything immediately. Here is how to find the commit and put a branch back on it before garbage collection does.

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