Moved to different branch, lost changes - is there a way back?

Question

I was working in the master branch and didn't realize it. I have hours of work that I did in that branch.

When I had finished what I wanted to commit, I went to GitHub Desktop v2.2.3 and noticed that I was in master. Before I had added them to staging, I listed the available branches and picked the one I wanted; it asked me what I wanted to do with the current changes, and I chose an option that said I wanted to "bring them with me".

Now I can't find my changes in either branch.

I went to the command line and entered "git reflog" and get the following:

e328567 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD, origin/branchNumberOne, branchNumberOne) HEAD@{0}: checkout: moving from branchNumberOne to master
e328567 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD, origin/branchNumberOne, branchNumberOne) HEAD@{1}: checkout: moving from master to branchNumberOne
e328567 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD, origin/branchNumberOne, branchNumberOne) HEAD@{2}: reset: moving to HEAD
e328567 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD, origin/branchNumberOne, branchNumberOne) HEAD@{3}: clone: from https://gitlab.myURL.com/aCompany/myProject.git

I'm not even sure which HEAD index to use to try to get my changes back; how do I figure that out? Or is there another way to recover the changes?

Answer 1

Last time that happened to me IntelliJ saved my day, if you use any IDE you can undo changes on files you lost. Either by doing "undo" or using file history feature.