I know this trope appears fairly often, but in reality unless it's someone's copy of $(git serve) running under their desk with no CI attached to it whatsoever,

I know this trope appears fairly often, but in reality unless it's someone's copy of $(git serve) running under their desk with no CI attached to it whatsoever, the commit history still exists and one can recover from a force push by just typing the equivalent of github.example.com/MyAwesomeOrg/MyRepo/commit/cafebabedeadbeef I hypothesize that a $(git fetch --mirror) would pull down the "orphaned" revision, too, but don't currently have the mental energy to prove it