| 40 | Retrieving âLostâ Commits |
Rebasing commits causes the history of your repository to change. Ever wonder what happens if you accidentally delete the wrong commit in an interactive rebase? The commitâthe point in the repository that recorded the changeâis still stored in your repository, but itâs orphaned. You can use the reflog to find that commit, even though the normal Git log doesnât show it.
The Git reflog tracks every time the tip of a branch changes. The tip is the commit that a particular branch points to. Back in Part III, Organizing Your Repository with Branches and Tags, we talked more about branches and how they are pointers to commits. Each time you commit a change to a branch, the branch is updated to point ...
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