Question

I am very new to git usage and finding it very confusing to understand the branch/commit management. Anyway, the project I am working on is managed by git, and I am using gitk for it. Using gitk I was making commmits, and checked out a previous commit. And now when I do Visualize HEAD’s history, the commit that I checked out appears last and my other 5 or 6 commits after that have disappeared.

Please note that I was working on master branch – but for some reason I was not on master branch right Now. That is to say the gitk visualization was like this:

commit 14
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commit 9
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master
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commit 1

I checked out commit 9 and I don’t have any commits hash codes either.

Answer 1

Use git log to see all your commits, get the SHA1 hash of the lastest one, then do

git checkout -b "branchname" <SHA1 goes here>

This will retrieve any commits you made when not on a checked out branch and you should then have all your commits visible on a new branch.