Seemed to be in “(no branch)” and then lost my changes

Question

I was trying to push from my Git workspace up to Github but my added and committed changes didn't seem to get uploaded. Then, doing a "git branch" I got something that looked like this : ``` git branch * (no branch) master ``` Foolishly, I thought I could get back into master with ``` git checkout master ``` and now my changes seem to have gone. My master branch is about three days old. And there seems no way to switch back to this (no branch). I checked this question Git : seemed to be in “(no branch)” and then lost my changes where answers suggest to do a `git reflog show`followed by a checkout. I tried that and I got this: ``` $ git reflog 0f27ae7 HEAD@{1}: checkout: moving from HEAD to master 7b8ee7b HEAD@{2}: commit: 14/05/2017 3:33pm ff60409 HEAD@{3}: commit: 14/05/2017 3:33pm 0f27ae7 HEAD@{4}: checkout: moving from master to 0f27ae7236aabbe8cccfba82e201e36368a05054 0f27ae7 HEAD@{5}: commit: 11/05/2017 2:33pm 3e4c616 HEAD@{6}: merge origin/master: Fast-forward 1e79818 HEAD@{7}:…

Accepted Answer

From the output of `git reflog` I would say your changes are on commit `7b8ee7b` (`HEAD@{2}`).

The following commands:

```
git branch lost 7b8ee7b
git checkout lost
```

should create a new branch (named `lost`) on the aforementioned commit then check it out.

Then you can do:

```
git rebase master
git checkout master
git merge --ff lost
```

to move the two commits you recovered on top of the `master` branch and make them appear as part of the `master` branch history.

If everything looks good then you can run `git branch -d lost` to remove the `lost` branch.

Seemed to be in “(no branch)” and then lost my changes

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