We've all been there. It's late. You're tired. You run git push --force and realize — half a second too late — you're on main, not your feature branch.
Your heart drops. Your teammates' commits are gone. You open Stack Overflow in a panic.
That exact scenario happened to me (okay, it was a branch, not main — but the fear was real). After the third time digging through git reflog output at midnight, I built gitpanic — an interactive CLI that auto-detects git disasters and walks you through recovery.
The Problem: git reflog is Powerful but Hostile
git reflog is the right tool for the job. But let's be honest:






