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Undo Git Mistakes: reflog, reset --hard, revert, restore and Recovering Deleted Branches

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Self-Hosting & Infra intermediate 6 min read $0.01 Updated 2026-10-20

A tested recovery guide for Git: undo reset --hard with reflog, undo a commit with soft reset, revert a pushed commit, discard file edits with restore, recover a deleted branch, stash, and fsck for dangling objects.

You ran git reset --hard, deleted a branch, or committed the wrong thing. Almost nothing in Git is lost immediately. Use the reflog, revert, restore and soft reset to get it back.

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