How do I get back to where I was... (roll back to previous commit) Git beginner

Question

My last commands were:

git rebase -i HEAD^^

git rebase -i HEAD^^

git rebase -i HEAD^^^

How do I get the repository back to the state it was in before the first of the listed commands?

NOTE: all I have been doing thus far is git commit -am "my commit message". I don't understand branching and merging yet so I haven't used them. I was trying to roll back the code to the previous commit, but this didn't seem to do anything.

Answer 1

If those are the exact commands you've run, then git reset --hard HEAD@{3} will get you back to your HEAD as of 3 commands ago. More generally, look at the output of git reflog to come up with the ref you want to recover, and then git reset to that.