Can I recover a branch after its deletion in Git?

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Yes, you should be able to do git reflog --no-abbrev and find the SHA1 for the commit at the tip of your deleted branch, then just git checkout [sha]. And once you’re at that commit, you can just git checkout -b [branchname] to recreate the branch from there.

Credit to @Cascabel for this condensed/one-liner version and @Snowcrash for how to obtain the sha.

If you’ve just deleted the branch you’ll see something like this in your terminal Deleted branch <your-branch> (was <sha>). Then just use that <sha> in this one-liner:

git checkout -b <your-branch> <sha>

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