Recover lost commits in GIT

Recover lost commits in GIT:

It's a big day for me!!…I am working with GIT from last 5 days and due to some or other reason I could not push my changes to a central repository.

Generally the process I follow is commit, fetch, rebase and push paradigm everyday to make sure that my workspace is clean and latest. But, today I couldn’t go through complete process due to “fatal: malloc, out of memory “issue while doing the rebase. In the process I lost few commits but I am not sure what had happened.

I tried different options and finally I could manage to recover my lost commits with the following approach.

Please find the screenshot for memory issue.

GIT provides a greater flexibility and it manages commits as a snapshot.  Even though git status command is not saying anything about your commits but it will be there somewhere in your local repository.

Here you go...

Step 1: Check git reflog to see all your commits.

Ø  Git  reflog show

This will show all commits which you have done in your local repository including your lost commits.

Every commit will have a hash id, identify the hash id for your lost commit.

Ex:  Here, my lost commit id is “85123ef”.

Step 2:  Confirm your commit

Ø  Git  show  85123ef

This will clearly show you the description and change id of your commit.

Step 3:  Do checkout for your hash id.

Ø  Git  checkout   85123ef

This will recover your lost commit and take you back to where we were at the beginning.