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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 3 months ago

I get a feeling from my feed lately that not that many kernel dev’s are too familiar with git reflog, which is essential tool for solving exactly the situations of e.g.

  1. Being in-between git am.
  2. Being in-between git rebase.
  3. Being in-between git cherry-pick.

Ignoring git merge because I’ve never used it in my career for any possible kernel dev task ;-)

It is really worth of the effort learn this subcommand properly. You won’t regret the investment.

Reflog a local cache and/or timeline of commit ID change’s at the tip. It is not stored to history and is completely ignorant, orthogonal and disjoint from whatever state the Git tree might be in.

#git #linux #kernel

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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Reflog be cleaned by git reflog expire --expire=all.

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