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Asked: 2026-06-10T06:50:28+00:00

I have a git repository. When I do ‘git branch’, it said $ git

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I have a git repository.
When I do ‘git branch’, it said 

 $ git branch
* com-2.1-SS

and then I do ‘git log’, i get a list of my commit

$ git log
commit ff878926b78614e8bf6af161da06070618e9ff6b

commit 3ffda8cec60a74a718fb25fb7a9fe4b3c4381137

commit bf6bb3427d8031d8e172c3b8b7909c8580e929cd

So I want to check out my repository to 3ffda8cec. So I did ‘git checkout 3ffda8cec’.

So far so good. It works and I get want I want.

But my question is how can I get back to com-2.1-SS?
i.e. reverse the fact that I ‘git checkout 3ffda8cec’

When I do ‘git branch’, it said 

$ git branch
* (no branch)

When I do ‘git checkout git checkout com-2.1-SS

error: pathspec 'com-2.1-SS' did not match any file(s) known to git.
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  1. Editorial Team

    git reflog will show you the different values a branch tip had and you can checkout it to go back to a previous state.

    Your case is easier since you still know now that the sha1 of com-2.1-SS before the git checkout was ff878926b78614e8bf6af161da06070618e9ff6b (which is basically what git reflog do) so you can directly do:

    git checkout ff878926b78614e8bf6af161da06070618e9ff6b

    Althoug I don’t understand from your description at which point your branch was deleted, you can recreate your branch after the checkout with:

    git checkout -b com-2.1-SS
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