Undoing Changes & History Management — Git & GitHub Fundamentals Road…

Fixing mistakes safely instead of panicking and starting over

Steps in Undoing Changes & History Management

git checkout vs git switch/restore — intermediate · The historically overloaded checkout command and its clearer modern replacements
Unstaging & Discarding Changes — intermediate · Removing changes from the staging area or discarding uncommitted edits entirely
git reset (Soft, Mixed, Hard) — intermediate · Moving the branch pointer and optionally rewriting the staging area and working directory
git revert — intermediate · Undoing a commit by creating a new commit, safely, even on shared history
Amending Commits — intermediate · Fixing the most recent commit's message or contents before it's shared
Git Stash — intermediate · Temporarily shelving uncommitted work to switch context and coming back to it later
Using the Reflog to Recover Lost Work — intermediate · Git's local safety net for finding commits that seem to have disappeared