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 subcommand prunes older reflog entries. Entries older
than `expire` time, or entries older than `expire-unreachable` time
and not reachable from the current tip, are removed from the reflog.
This is typically not used directly by end users -- instead, see
linkgit:git-gc[1].

The "delete" subcommand deletes single entries from the reflog, but
not the reflog itself. Its argument must be an _exact_ entry (e.g. "`git
reflog delete master@{2}`"). This subcommand is also typically not used
directly by end users.

The "drop" subcommand completely removes the reflog for the specified
references. This is in contrast to "expire" and "delete", both of which
can be used to delete reflog entries, but not the reflog itself.

The "exists" subcommand checks whether a ref has a reflog.  It exits
with zero status if the reflog exists, and non-zero status if it does
not.

OPTIONS
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Options for `show`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

`git reflog show` accepts any of the options accepted by `git log`.


Options for `expire`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

--all::
	Process the reflogs of all references.

--single-worktree::
	By default when `--all` is specified, reflogs from all working
	trees are processed. This option limits the processing to reflogs
	from the current working tree only.

--expire=<time>::
	Prune entries older than the specified time. If this option is
	not specified, the expiration time is taken from the
	configuration setting `gc.reflogExpire`, which in turn
	defaults to 90 days. `--expire=all` prunes entries regardless
	of their age; `--expire=never` turns off pruning of reachable
	entries (but see `--expire-unreachable`).

--expire-unreachable=<time>::
	Prune entries older than `<time>` that are not reachable from
	the current tip of the branch. If this option is not
	specified, the expiration time is taken from the configuration
	setting `gc.reflogExpireUnreachable`, which in turn defaults
	to 30 days. `--expire-unreachable=all` prunes unreachable
	entries regardless of their age; `--expire-unreachable=never`
	turns off early pruning of unreachable entries (but see
	`--expire`).

--updateref::
	Update the reference to the value of the top reflog entry (i.e.
	<ref>@\{0\}) if the previous top entry was pruned.  (This
	option is ignored for symbolic references.)

--rewrite::
	If a reflog entry's predecessor is pruned, adjust its "old"
	SHA-1 to be equal to the "new" SHA-1 field of the entry that
	now precedes it.

--stale-fix::
	Prune any reflog entries that point to "broken commits". A
	broken commit is a commit that is not reachable from any of
	the reference tips and that refers, directly or indirectly, to
	a missing commit, tree, or blob object.
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This computation involves traversing all the reachable objects, i.e. it
has the same cost as 'git prune'.  It is primarily intended to fix
corruption caused by garbage collecting using older versions of Git,
which didn't protect objects referred to by reflogs.

-n::
--dry-run::
	Do not actually prune any entries; just show what would have
	been pruned.

--verbose::
	Print extra information on screen.


Options for `delete`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

`git reflog delete` accepts options `--updateref`, `--rewrite`, `-n`,
`--dry-run`, and `--verbose`, with the same meanings as when they are
used with `expire`.

Options for `drop`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

--all::
	Drop the reflogs of all references from all worktrees.

--single-worktree::
	By default when `--all` is specified, reflogs from all working
	trees are dropped. This option limits the processing to reflogs
	from the current working tree only.

GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Title: Git Reflog Options and Subcommands
Summary
The git reflog command has several subcommands, including expire, delete, drop, and exists, with various options to manage reflog entries, such as pruning older entries, deleting single entries, and dropping reflogs, as well as options to control the behavior of these subcommands.