(you can do `git show HASH` for each of the hashes in the log, hopefully find the one that has your work, and then `git checkout HASH` to get back to it. then give it a name by creating a new branch, merging it, etc.)
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Isaiah Norton <[email protected]> wrote: > If sounds like you committed to the detached head, and if so, the commit > should be a few steps back in the reflog: `git reflog` > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Douglas Bates <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I tagged a new release of one of my packages. Just to ensure that >> everything was working as I thought I ran >> >> Pkg.free("MyPackage") >> >> so I would be sure to be testing on a clean copy of that release. Of >> course that meant that my local copy of the package was a detached HEAD. >> >> I then edited the code, adding a lot of new capabilities, did a local >> commit of the files, tried to push these changes, found that I was on a >> detached HEAD. At that point I should have started being cautious but I >> didn't. I ran >> >> Pkg.checkout("MyPackage") >> >> and it seems that I have managed to lose all the work I did today. Is >> there some way I can get back the changes that I made on the detached HEAD? >> > >
