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>
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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
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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 workNotes
HEAD^{/message}is revision-walk syntax, not a reflog queryscripts/readability.py --strict