Restore a removed git branch

While doing some branch cleaning I accidentally deleted a branch I shouldn’t have deleted and apperently there is a way to restore it afterwards (phew!).

Get git history:

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$ git reflog

Find row where the branch was deleted, in my case:

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ea11348b521c HEAD@{3}: delete_branch: feature/WEB-669-add-preamble [445a97cc9223b38f1732aff35de5df87124f63105]

Restore it then with:

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$ git checkout -b <branch> <sha>

So in my case running this to restore it:

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$ git checkout -b feature/WEB-669-add-preamble 445a97cc9223b38f1732aff35de5df87124f63105