git recover deleted file where no commit was made after the delete

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I deleted some files     I did NOT commit yet     I want to reset my workspace to recover the files     I did a git checkout     But the deleted files are still missing   And git status shows     On branch master   Changes to be committed       use  git reset HEAD  lt file gt      to unstage        deleted     cc properties     deleted     store README     deleted     store cc properties     Why doesn t git checkout   reset the workspace to HEAD

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I had the same problem however none of the above solutions worked for me. What I ended up doing was:
- create an empty file with the same name
- compare this file with its local history
- copy history across to empty file.

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What worked for me was git reset HEAD app views data landingpage js erb git restore app views data landingpage js erb  where the file I wanted to restore was app views data landingpage js erb

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I had the same problem and none of the answers here I tried worked for me either  I am using Intellij and I had checked out a new branch git checkout -b minimalExample to create a  minimal example  on the new branch of some issue by deleting a bunch of files and modifying a bunch of others in the project   Unfortunately  even though I didn t commit any of the changes on the new  minimal example  branch  when I checked out my  original  branch again all of the changes and deletions from the  minimal example  branch had happened in the  original  branch too  or so it appeared    According to git status the deleted files were just gone from both branches   Fortunately  even though Intellij had warned me  deleting these files may not be fully recoverable   I was able to restore them  on the minimal example branch from which they had actually been deleted  by right-clicking on the project and selecting Local History   Show History  and then Restore on the most recent history item I wanted    After Intellij restored the files in the  minimal example  branch  I pushed the branch to origin   Then I switched back to my  original  local branch and ran git pull origin minimalExample to get them back in the  original  branch too

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If you have not committed any changes all you have to do is stash those changes and you will be back to the last working commit   git stash git stash clear git clean

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Here are different cases as a reference to help others  If the deletion has not been committed  the command below will restore the deleted file in the working tree    git checkout --  lt file gt   You can get a list of all the deleted files in the working tree using the command below    git ls-files --deleted  If the deletion has been committed  find the commit where it happened  then recover the file from this commit   find the commit hash where it had this file deleted   git rev-list -n 1 HEAD --  lt file gt   It should give you something like c46e81aa403ecb8a0f7a323a358068345  now use this commit hash with the parent operator     like so    git checkout  lt commit gt   --  lt file gt   Example    git checkout c46e81aa403ecb8a0f7a323a358068345  --  lt file gt    In case you are looking for the path of the file to recover  the following command will display a summary of all deleted files    git log --diff-filter D --summary  If you want to just display the list of files  git log --diff-filter D --summary   grep  quot delete mode quot

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Found this post while looking for answers on how to un-delete a file that was deleted in my working directory after a merge from another s branch  No commit was yet made after the merge  Since it was a merge in progress  i could not just add it back using       git reset  lt commitid -where-file cpp-existed gt  file cpp   I had to do another step in addition to the reset to bring the file back       git checkout -- file cpp

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If you have installed ToroiseGIT then just select  Revert     menu item for parent folder popup-menu

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Just do git checkout path to file-I-want-to-bring-back txt

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if you are looking for a deleted directory    git checkout   pathToDir

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Use git ls-files to checkout deleted -d  or modified -m  files   git checkout   git ls-files -d    see How can I restore only the modified files on a git checkout

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To recover all unstaged deletions at once  automatically  without specifying each single path   git ls-files -z -d   xargs -0 git checkout --   To recover all staged deletions at once  automatically  without specifying each single path   git status   grep  deleted     awk   print  2     xargs git checkout --

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Newer git  mine is 2 27 0  is more friendly and the actual commands are shown during  quot git status quot   For example  if you deleted the file tf c  then   git status     Changes not staged for commit     use  quot git add rm  lt file gt     quot  to update what will be committed     use  quot git restore  lt file gt     quot  to discard changes in working directory        deleted     tf c  You would use  quot git restore tf c quot  to get it back  as it saz  No more search

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1 Find that particular commit to which you want to revert using      git log This command will give you a list of commits done by you     2 Revert to that commit using        git revert  lt commit id gt     Now you local branch would have all files in particular

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Here is the command that helped me on my mac  I tried a few of the other solutions but they did not work for me   Git version on OSX Mavericks  mac-pro main chris  git version git version 1 8 5 2  Apple Git-48    Command  git checkout HEAD -- path to file file cc

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The output tells you what you need to do  git reset HEAD cc properties etc    This will unstage the rm operation  After that  running a git status again will tell you that you need to do a git checkout -- cc properties to get the file back    Update  I have this in my config file    git config alias unstage reset HEAD   which I usually use to unstage stuff

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git checkout HEAD -- client src pp web index cljs

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Since you re doing a git checkout    it looks like you are trying to restore your branch back to the last commit state    You can achieve this with a git reset HEAD --hard  Warning  Doing this may remove all your latest modifications and unstage your modifications  e g   you can lose work  It may be what you want  but check out the docs to make sure

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For me what worked was git checkout  SHA1 of commit with version to restore    path to file to restore    For example git checkout 5a6b3179e58edff9c90326b9a04284b02fd67bd0  src-ui views includes radar pug    executed in the branch that we want the file to go into   After that command executes  the restored file will exist in the original location  which will need to be comited

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CAUTION  commit any work you wish to retain first   You may reset your workspace  and recover the deleted files    git checkout

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if you used  git rm filename   to delete a file then  git checkout path to filename   doesn t work  so in that case  git checkout HEAD  path to filename   should work

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If you want to restore all of the files at once  Remember to use the period because it tells git to grab all of the files   This command will reset the head and unstage all of the changes     git reset HEAD      Then run this to restore all of the files     git checkout     Then doing a git status  you ll get     git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with  origin master

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You ve staged the deletion so you need to do   git checkout HEAD cc properties store README store cc properties   git checkout   only checks out from the index where the deletion has already been staged

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Do you can want see this  that goes for cases where you used  git checkout --     before you commit something   You may also want to get rid of created files that have not yet been created  And you do not want them  With    git reset --

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