Some things are never truly lost - How git recovered two weeks of deleted work

This article recounts a developer's experience of accidentally deleting two weeks of work on a major product update (KeyboardKit 11.0) by running a git reset and force push. The author describes the panic and initial attempt to redo the work, then explains how they used Claude Code to discover that git's reflog and dangling objects preserved the deleted branch. The article provides a practical lesson on git recovery techniques, emphasizing that git often retains data even after destructive actions, and offers a step-by-step account of recovering the lost commits. It is relevant to developers using git and interested in disaster recovery in version control.