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How to undo git reset --soft to get my changes back?


I had some local changes in my directory that I committed using git commit. Later I realized that by mistake my changes broke my build. So I did a git reset --soft on my repo. But I screwed up, as I did not back up the changes that were all undone, as some of them did contain the new functionality that I wanted. Any help on how to undo a git reset --soft operation so that I can get my committed changes back.


Solution

  • In $ git reflog you should find some of your commits. Once you find the latest commit that you want to move to

    you should reset back to your commit id $ git reset _Your_Hash_ , as $ git reset --soft just reset the files and not the index or working tree.