Restore GitHub commit history while setting new remote origin

Question

I had a git repo called chess_assess.

• I downgraded my local project's Vue from v3.x to v2.x by creating a new local project called chess_assess2 and copying almost all content from chess_assess into it.
• I then deleted chess_assess and renamed chess_assess2 to chess_assess.
• Finally, I reset the remote using
  • git remote add origin <path_to_chess_assess.git>
  • git add . && git commit -m ""
  • git push -u origin main

This produced the error

! [rejected]        main -> main (non-fast-forward)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/hexaquarks/chess_assess.git'

So I did:

git push -u origin main --force

which worked, but now my GitHub repo commits history is completely gone.

Is there a way to reobtain the commit history of my project while simultaneously connecting this new project to GitHub?

Answer 1

How can I use reflog in the deleted branch when the initial folder chess_assess is deleted?

You cannot indeed.

If the remote repository remained the same, check its own remote reflog for GitHub, using the GitHub Event API to list push events. I mentioned those here, knowing that public events are delayed by a few minutes.

You might get the last pushed commit, which you can then fetch, bringing with its all its past commits.