docs: add Git reflog concept article - #100
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Rewrite the reflog overview in house voice as a learn concepts page, wire it into the Git index, and link it from version control. Co-authored-by: Ziinc <Ziinc@users.noreply.github.com>
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Explain that branch deletion drops the ref while commits remain, walk through HEAD reflog recovery, and document when local recovery cannot work. Co-authored-by: Ziinc <Ziinc@users.noreply.github.com>
Fix the broken discarding-changes link, add in-body links so the recovery how-to is no longer thin, and point sibling reflog mentions at the new concept page. Co-authored-by: Ziinc <Ziinc@users.noreply.github.com>
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Adds a house-voice concept page for the Git reflog, plus a how-to for recovering a deleted branch from the local
HEADreflog. Rebased onto currentmainand audited with the writing and audit-interlinking skills.Changes
web/learn/concepts/git/git-reflog.mdx: what the reflog is, how it differs from commit history, query/recovery commands,ORIG_HEAD, retention viagit gc, and hard limitsweb/learn/how-to/recover-deleted-git-branch.md: whygit branch -Dis reversible, thegit reflog→git branch <name> <hash>sequence, and when local recovery cannot workAudit (post-rebase)
readability.py --strict(reflog Flesch 52.4, how-to 66.4, no hard bans or AI tells)./discarding-changes→/docs/how-to/discarding-changesgit-worktrees-vs-clones,discarding-changes, andmoving-files-between-workspaceshosting→ recover how-to,objects→ worktrees-vs-clones, unrelated site-wide gaps)