How do I undo a checkout in git

Question

I just checked out an earlier commit from my local git repo  I haven t made any changes to it  I was just looking at it  Now I want to go back to my latest commit - how do I do that   The exact command I used to check it out   git checkout e5dff6b3c5d704f9b598de46551355d18235ac08   Now when I type git log  at the top I see this checked out commit  but none of my later commits  Did I accidentally delete those

User · Answer

You probably want git checkout master  or git checkout  branchname

User · Answer

Try this first   git checkout master    If you re on a different branch than master  use the branch name there instead    If that doesn t work  try     For a single file   git checkout HEAD  path to file   For the entire repository working copy   git reset --hard HEAD   And if that doesn t work  then you can look in the reflog to find your old head SHA and reset to that   git reflog git reset --hard  lt sha from reflog gt    HEAD is a name that always points to the latest commit in your current branch

User · Answer

To undo git checkout do git checkout -  similarly to cd and cd - in shell

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