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[Julia Evans] Orphan Commits (programming.dev)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

That's a really good explanation. I would just add that I find easier to search for orphans with git log --graph --reflog than using `git reflog directly, especially if it's one of the top entries in the reflog.