Undo and Recover

Objective

Restore the user's intended local state with the least destructive applicable mechanism, preserving rescue evidence and avoiding shared-history rewrite.

Use When

• Unstaging or restoring selected changes.
• Aborting a merge, rebase, cherry-pick, or revert.
• Creating, applying, or recovering a stash.
• Recovering a deleted branch or commit from current refs/reflogs.
• Resetting local refs or cleaning exact paths.
• Creating a new revert commit for an existing commit.

Route Elsewhere