git reflog
Manage reference log information
Reference logs, or "reflogs", record when the tips of branches and other references were updated in the local repository. Reference logs are completely local and aren't included in pushes, fetches or clones.
Reflogs are useful in various Git commands, to specify the old value of a reference. For example, HEAD@{2}
means "where HEAD
used to be two moves ago", master@{one.week.ago}
means
"where master
used to point to one week ago in this local repository", and so on.
This command manages the information recorded in the reflogs.
The show
subcommand (which is also the default, in the absence of any subcommands) shows the log of the reference provided in the command-line (or
HEAD
, by default). The reflog covers all recent actions, and in addition the HEAD
reflog records branch switching. git reflog show
is an alias for git
log -g --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline
.
The expire
subcommand prunes older reflog entries. Entries older than expire time, or entries older than expire-unreachable time and not reachable from
the current tip, are removed from the reflog. This is typically not used directly by end users.
The delete
subcommand deletes single entries from the reflog. Its argument must be an exact entry (e.g. git reflog delete master@{2}
). This
subcommand is also typically not used directly by end users.
The exists
subcommand checks whether a ref has a reflog. It exits with zero status if the reflog exists, and non-zero status if it does not.