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The Commits Weren’t Gone — reflog Still Had Ninety Days og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Someone Force-Pushed main. The Commits Weren’t Gone — reflog Still Had Ninety Days **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 8 min read · 12 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary A force-push to main wiped 14 commits from the visible history, causing a 47-minute release block. The commits were recoverable via git reflog in six minutes. The post walks through the exact recovery sequence: fetching the remote reflog, identifying the last good commit hash, creating a named recovery branch, and restoring main with --force-with-lease. It also covers fallback strategies when reflog is empty (local clones, git fsck), and the guardrails added afterward: branch protection, a --force-with-lease alias, a pre-push hook blocking force to protected branches, and quarterly Git disaster drills. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@deepjoshi\_dev** · 0 upvotes > This is news to me thanks for sharing. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [I Force Pushed Over Six Hours of Commits. 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