Git Recovery and Inspection Workflows
Recoverable Git workflows for finding commits, restoring selected files, and undoing shared changes.
Recoverable Git workflows for finding commits, restoring selected files, and undoing shared changes. Each row includes a practical application and a failure to check before using it.
Use it when
- Recover a commit after a mistaken reset.
- Undo a published change while preserving history.
Watch out for
- These commands are examples; inspect your local state first.
- Git cannot recover untracked content it never recorded.
The data
10 rows
| Situation | Command | Effect | Check first |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find a recent branch position | git reflog show --date=iso | List locally recorded ref movements. | Reflogs are local and entries can expire. |
| Preserve a found commit | git branch recovered <commit> | Give the commit a durable branch reference. | Inspect the commit before switching or merging. |
| Undo a shared commit | git revert <commit> | Create a new commit that reverses a change. | Review conflicts and dependent changes. |
| Restore one working file | git restore --source=<commit> -- path | Replace the selected working-tree path. | Copy uncommitted work you need before replacing it. |
| Unstage a file | git restore --staged -- path | Remove the file from the staged change. | It normally leaves the working file intact. |
| Inspect a commit | git show --stat <commit> | Read the change summary. | Read the actual diff before relying on the summary. |
| Inspect one old file | git show <commit>:path/to/file | Print a file from a chosen commit. | The path is relative to the repository root. |
| Save local work | git stash push -u -m 'before repair' | Record tracked changes and untracked files. | Ignored files require separate preservation. |
| Preview stale branches | git branch --merged | List branches merged into the current commit. | Merged does not mean the branch is safe to delete. |
| Verify the destination | git remote -v | Show fetch and push destinations. | Confirm the repository before pushing a repair. |
Fields
The shape of this dataset, read from the data itself: every column, its type and a real value. Agents can use this to plan a query without fetching the whole document.
| Section | Field | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | situation | string | Find a recent branch position |
| data | command | string | git reflog show --date=iso |
| data | effect | string | List locally recorded ref movements. |
| data | check_first | string | Reflogs are local and entries can expire. |
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