Aborted old git rebase and lost commits since the rebase started

Question

Crap! About a week ago, I was rebasing some commits while trying to clean up my repository, and apparently I didn\'t actually finish it. Today, a week and several commits later,

Answer 1

Check git reflog. You can walk back in time using those commit hashes as a reference in almost all cases.

I'd also physically copy the git repo directory elsewhere as a place to do preliminary testing to see what will work, that way you can mess with whatever you want without losing untracked files or getting things into a state that you can't come back from.