Git Trick For When You're In Trouble

Do you ever find yourself a few commits into trouble on an important branch like master? I know I do (and just did).

One way to turn back the clock is to run git log, find the commit code for where things were OK, and then run git checkout -b recover bfc6c06. You’ll get a new branch called recover to collect yourself. Then you probably want to git branch -D master then, from the recover branch, run git checkout -b master to start a fresh master branch from the good recover branch.