NAME
git-reflog - Manage reflog information
SYNOPSIS
git reflog\n [show] [<log-options>] [<ref>]
\ngit reflog list\n
\ngit reflog expire\n [--expire=<time>] [--expire-unreachable=<time>]
\n
[--rewrite] [--updateref] [--stale-fix]
\n
[--dry-run | -n] [--verbose] [--all [--single-worktree] | <refs>...]
\ngit reflog delete\n [--rewrite] [--updateref]
\n
[--dry-run | -n] [--verbose] <ref>@{<specifier>}...
\ngit reflog exists\n <ref>DESCRIPTION
This command manages the information recorded in the reflogs.
Reference logs, or "reflogs", record when the tips of branches and other references were updated in the local repository. Reflogs are useful in various Git commands, to specify the old value of a reference. For example, HEAD@{2} means "where HEAD used to be two moves ago", master@{one.week.ago} means "where master used to point to one week ago in this local repository", and so on. See gitrevisions(7) for more details.
The command takes various subcommands, and different options depending on the subcommand:
The "show" subcommand (which is also the default, in the absence of any subcommands) shows the log of the reference provided in the command-line (or HEAD, by default). The reflog covers all recent actions, and in addition the HEAD reflog records branch switching. git reflog show is an alias for git log -g --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline; see git-log(1) for more information.
The "list" subcommand lists all refs which have a corresponding reflog.
The "expire" subcommand prunes older reflog entries. Entries older than expire time, or entries older than expire-unreachable time and not reachable from the current tip, are removed from the reflog. This is typically not used directly by end users — instead, see git-gc(1).
The "delete" subcommand deletes single entries from the reflog. Its argument must be an exact entry (e.g. "git reflog delete master@{2}"). This subcommand is also typically not used directly by end users.
The "exists" subcommand checks whether a ref has a reflog. It exits with zero status if the reflog exists, and non-zero status if it does not.
OPTIONS
Options for show
git reflog show accepts any of the options accepted by git log.
Options for expire
--all
--single-worktree
--expire=<time>
--expire-unreachable=<time>
--updateref
--rewrite
--stale-fix
This computation involves traversing all the reachable objects, i.e. it has the same cost as git prune. It is primarily intended to fix corruption caused by garbage collecting using older versions of Git, which didn’t protect objects referred to by reflogs.
-n, --dry-run
--verbose
Options for delete
git reflog delete accepts options --updateref, --rewrite, -n, --dry-run, and --verbose, with the same meanings as when they are used with expire.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite