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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: can git reset or checkout be reverted?
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:47:40 -0800 (PST)
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bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> writes:

> If I want to recall a old version of testing by
> 
> git reset --hard sha1
> or
> git checkout sha1
> 
> then git log does not show anything beyond that commit. It does give
> some warning and recommend -b switch next time.  If I only do that by
> accident or ignorance.  How to revert to the original HEAD?

  git checkout ORIG_HEAD

or

  git checkout HEAD@{1}

You can check it out wrt. second form using "git reflog" ("git log -g").

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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