Question

I did some changes and then did a commit. Then I realized that I am on an unnamed branch. So I checked out another branch (with a name). Now I want to recover the commit that I did to the unnamed branch or switch back to the unnamed branch so that I can put a name on it.

Is my commit lost forever?

Is there a way to see a list of all commits to all the branches and unnamed branches?

Answer 1

You can inspect git reflog to see what your HEAD was pointing at previously. When you find the commit id, you can check it out via git checkout <commit-id>. Once you are on that commit, you can create a branch to point to it via git checkout -b <branch-name>.