Git Reflog shows you a lot about what's going on in your Git repositories, and let's you clean them up better than other commands can. For this reason, and because I have been known to accidentally include things in commits that I need to purge, I'm coming to love this command.

So, in this episode I'm going to give you a good introduction to the command, and step you through how I completely removed a commit from a repository I was working on recently, so that no one could ever recover an image that I'd committed with an unredacted credential.

Links from the episode

• BFG Repo-Cleaner
• Git Reflog
• Git Log
• Git plumbing and porcelain
• The blog post where I go into greater detail about using Git Reflog

Want to grow your knowledge further?

Check out the books below, where you can grow your web development skills in a very focused, very hands-on way.

• Deploy with Docker Compose
• Mezzio Essentials

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