How do you undo a hard reset in Git Gui or Gitk on Windows?

Question

I'm using Git Gui and Gitk on Windows. How do I undo a hard reset from within the past two hours?

(Is it possible to do this from these applications, without using the command line?)

I saw this SO post, which says that undos are possible before git's garbage collection occurs. I might have quit and reopened one or both of these applications.

Answer 1

See the answers by Brian Riehman and Pat Notz in the link in the question.

One solution is to use the command line.

In Windows, open DOS in the directory containing your .git directory.

Type something like the following to see what commit you want to go to:

"c:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" reflog

To go to a certain commit, type something like the following, where the last expression is the SHA1 code of that commit:

"c:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" reset --hard 5eb4080