Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert AZ-400 Practice Question

git reflog records every change to the tips of references (like branches) in the local repository, including those created by reset, merge, and pull operations. Because you have already fetched the force-pushed changes, the reflog for your remote-tracking branch (origin/release) contains the history of its tip, including the hash it pointed to before the fetch. By inspecting the reflog, you can find the previous hash and restore the branch. The default retention for unreachable reflog entries is 30 days. git fsck --lost-found can find dangling objects but lacks the chronological context of the reflog, making it harder to identify the correct commit. git log --graph only shows commits in the current reachable history and will not show the lost commits. git stash list is for managing stashed changes and is unrelated to commit history recovery.