How to get back to the latest commit after checking out a previous commit?

566    Asked by ArunSharma in Devops , Asked on Jul 19, 2021

I sometimes check out some previous versions of the code to examine or test. I have seen instructions on what to do if I wish to modify previous commits -- but suppose I make no changes. After I've done e.g. git checkout HEAD^, how do I get back to the tip of the branch?.. git log no longer shows me the SHA of the latest commit. How git checkout last commit ?
Answered by Bruce Benedict

 If the commit (that you need to return) is known and you want that to attach with the head of some branch then use:

      git checkout 

And also you can see the commits that your HEAD has previously pointed to by using:

      git reflog

For the latest versions of git, if you had done any checkouts something to moving your HEAD

You can also do:

      git checkout -

This will take you back to the previous checkout. Thus, you can go back to the latest commits after checking out a previous commit.



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