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Restoring HEAD after a reset in Git

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This snippet shows how to restore HEAD after using Git's reset method (see http://gitready.com/2009/01/17/restoring-lost-commits.html?disqus_reply=5271828#comment-5271828).

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  1. # reseting 
  2. $ git show-ref -h HEAD
  3.   7c61179cbe51c050c5520b4399f7b14eec943754 HEAD
  4.  
  5. $ git reset --hard HEAD^
  6.   HEAD is now at 39ba87b Fixing about and submit pages so they don't look stupid
  7.  
  8. $ git show-ref -h HEAD
  9.   39ba87bf28b5bb223feffafb59638f6f46908cac HEAD
  10.  
  11. # the commit object still exists
  12. $ git fsck --lost-found
  13.   [... some blobs omitted ...]
  14.   dangling commit 7c61179cbe51c050c5520b4399f7b14eec943754
  15.  
  16. # showing the log of the old references of HEAD 
  17. $ git reflog
  18.   39ba87b... HEAD@{0}: HEAD~1: updating HEAD
  19.   7c61179... HEAD@{1}: pull origin master: Fast forward
  20.   [... lots of other refs ...]
  21.  
  22. # restoring HEAD back from the dangling ref object hash
  23. $ git merge 7c61179
  24.   Updating 39ba87b..7c61179
  25.   Fast forward
  26.     css/screen.css |    4 ++++
  27.     submit.html    |    4 ++--
  28.     2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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