Recovering from Mistakes

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Undo – Remove a commit completely
• Undo – Remove a commit and retain changes to files
• Undo – Remove a commit and retain changes in the staging area
• Undo – Working with a dirty area
• Redo – Recreate the latest commit with new changes
• Revert – Undo the changes introduced by a commit
• Reverting a merge
• Viewing past Git actions with git reflog
• Finding lost changes with git fsck