Case Study: Recovering from a Disastrous History Rewrite — Roadmap St…
Diagnosing and fixing a repository after a bad force-push or rebase gone wrong
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Git & GitHub Fundamentals
Before this step
Interview questions
- A teammate force-pushed and overwrote three days of shared history — what's your recovery plan?
Study resources
- git-reflog Documentation (Article) — The official Git documentation for the reflog, the primary recovery tool after a bad rewrite.
- Recovering Lost Commits with Reflog Explained (Video) — A practical tutorial directly applicable to recovering from a bad force-push.
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