The latest commit gone after hard reset

Question

I commited my changes and didn't push them to the server. Then I did hard reset to one of my previous commits and my latest commit gone. Does it mean commits which weren't pushed to server gone after hard reset?

edit: Is it possible to recover my latest commit?

Answer 1

Yes, but not immediately. Reflog entries will expire in time and the contents will disappear on garbage collection.

You can still get them back from the reflog:

git reflog

and reset to them/checkout:

git reset HEAD@{1}

or, e.g. checking it out to a rescue branch:

git checkout -b rescue HEAD@{1}