The reflog doesn't have to scare you.

You never really lose a commit in GIT, but sometimes it is harder then it should be to recover it. This tool allows you easily review commits in the reflog one at a time.

Just type git review and this will show you the diff, commit by commit, as it iterates the reflog, until you find the commit you want.

git review

j - next commit
k - previous commit
s - show current head
p - pick commit
q - quit
? - print help

gem install reflog-review

Add this to your .gitconfig file.

[alias]
  review = !sh -c 'reflog-review'