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TutorialOct 19, 2026

Recovering from a bad Git rebase, step by step

A calm recovery workflow using reflog, a safety branch, and a small set of commands you can inspect before running.

First, stop retrying the rebase. Repeated commands make the timeline harder to read. If a rebase is still in progress and you want to return to its starting point, run git rebase --abort. If it already completed, keep reading.

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Keep it moving.

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Eli Brooks2 days ago

git show --stat on the candidate hash is a great sanity check. I added rescue/before-rebase to my notes verbatim.