Find a lost commit

Git reflog contains the complete history of everything that happened. So if you committed something and then lost the commit due to a reset or a rebase, you can still find the commit by looking into the reflog:

git fsck --no-reflog | awk '/dangling commit/ {print $3}'

or use gitk:

gitk --all $( git fsck --no-reflog | awk '/dangling commit/ {print $3}' )

Check out the discussion here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/91795/1589512

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