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Reflog

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In software engineering, reflog means: A local history of changes to references, such as where HEAD or a branch pointed at earlier times.

In Turkish: referans günlüğü

How it is used

Used to recover recently moved references. Entries are local and can expire; they are not a permanent remote backup.

Example sentences

  1. The reflog helped us find the branch tip from before the accidental reset.

    The earlier pointer value supplies a commit to inspect or recover.

  2. Her clone had no reflog entry for the reset performed on my laptop.

    Reference movements on one machine are not shared as another clone's local history.

Common collocations

  • inspect the reflog
  • reflog entry
  • commitA saved snapshot of changes in a repository, with a short message that explains what was changed and why. Also used as a verb: to commit your changes.
  • repositoryA storage place for a project's code and its full history of changes, usually managed with Git and often hosted online.

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