How to get back to the latest commit after checking out a previous commit?

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If you know the commit you want to return to is the head of some branch, or is tagged, then you can just

git checkout branchname

You can also use git reflog to see what other commits your HEAD (or any other ref) has pointed to in the past.

Edited to add:

In newer versions of Git, if you only ran git checkout or something else to move your HEAD once, you can also do 

git checkout -

to switch back to wherever it was before the last checkout. This was motivated by the analogy to the shell idiom cd - to go back to whatever working directory one was previously in.

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