Recover from git reset --hard

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Is there any way to recover uncommitted changes to the working directory from a git reset --hard HEAD

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If you had a IDE open with the same code  try doing a ctrl z on each individual file that you have made changes to  It helped me recover my uncommited changes after doing git reset --hard

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I ran into same issue and I was almost going insane    initially i committed the project and merged   later when i try running git push --set-upstream origin master  i was getting this error     fatal  refusing to merge unrelated histories    so i ran git reset --hard HEAD and it deleted a 3 weeks project but these few commands below save the day   git reset HEAD  1            this command unstage changes after reset git fsck --lost-found        I got the dangling commit fc3b6bee2bca5d8a7e16b6adaca6a76e620eca4b git show  lt dangling commit something like- gt  fc3b6bee2bca5d8a7e16b6adaca6a76e620eca4b gt  git rebase fc3b6bee2bca5d8a7e16b6adaca6a76e620eca4b   hope this helps

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This is what I usually do if I lose some changes    git reflog git checkout  lt commit id gt     now you are in where you want but you cannot push from detached branch to master manually copy and paste changes from detached branch to master or working branch git reset --hard HEAD    if needed git add      gt  git commit      gt  git push       to move the pointer back to your previous commits but keeping the changes you made so far in your latest commits checkout git reset --soft dadada

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You cannot get back uncommitted changes in general    Previously staged changes  git add  should be recoverable from index objects  so if you did  use git fsck --lost-found to locate the objects related to it   This writes the objects to the  git lost-found  directory  from there you can use git show  lt filename gt  to see the contents of each file    If not  the answer here would be  look at your backup  Perhaps your editor IDE stores temp copies under  tmp or C  TEMP and things like that  1   git reset HEAD  1    This will restore to the previous HEAD   1  vim e g  optionally stores persistent undo  eclipse IDE stores local history  such features might save your a

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You can get back a commit after doing a reset --hard HEAD   Make use of  git reflog  to check the history of the HEAD in the branch   You will see your commit and its id here   Do a   git reset  commit Id of the commit you want to bring back

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answer suitable for a subset of users   If you re on  any recent  macOS  and even if you re away from your Time Machine disk  the OS will have saved hourly backups  called local snapshots   Enter Time Machine and navigate to the file you lost  The OS will then ask you   The location to which you re restoring  file ext  already contains an item with the same name  Do you want to replace it with the one you re restoring    You should be able to recover the file s  you lost

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I did git reset --hard on the wrong project by mistake  I know      I had just worked on one file and it was still open during and after I ran the command   Even though I had not committed  I was able to retrieve the old file with the simple COMMAND   Z

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If you re developing on Netbeans  look between the file tabs and the file edit area  There is a  Source  and  History   On  History  you ll see changes made using version control  git other   but also changes made locally  In this case  local changes could save you

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Correct answers  OK  now I like git   -  Here s a simpler recipe   git log HEAD  2  git reset --hard  HEAD  2    Where  2  is the number of back to where you committed your changes  In my case  interrupted by colleague and boss to help debug some build issue  so  did a reset --hard twice  so  HEAD and HEAD  1  were over-writes  Whew  would have lost an our of hard work

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answer from this SO   git reflog show  4b6cf8e  HEAD - gt  master  origin master  origin HEAD  HEAD  0   reset  moving to origin master 295f07d HEAD  1   pull  Merge made by the  recursive  strategy  7c49ec7 HEAD  2   commit  restore dependencies to the User model fa57f59 HEAD  3   commit  restore dependencies to the Profile model 3431936 HEAD  4   commit  amend   restore admin 033f5c0 HEAD  5   commit  restore admin ecd2c1d HEAD  6   commit  re-enable settings app    the commit the HEAD to be pointed to is 7c49ec7  restore dependencies to the User model     git reset HEAD  2   You got your day back

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In case you re using VS Code and happen to have the affected files open  you can undo the changes made by Git on a per-file basis   so CTRL   Z

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If you use something like IntelliJ   On the context menu  choose Local History  and click Show History on the submenu      The local history view for a project or folder shows you everything   that you have done during the last few days  In the Action column of   the lower part of the dialog box  select the action you want to roll   back        So doing  the upper part of the dialog box shows the tree view of changed files  If you want to restore the deleted file only  regardless of the other changes that have been done since then  you can select the file Lost txt in the tree view and click the Revert button    http   blog jetbrains com idea 2008 01 using-local-history-to-restore-deleted-files   This just got my arse out the fire

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Yes  YOU CAN RECOVER from a hard reset in git   Use   git reflog   to get the identifier of your commit  Then use   git reset --hard  lt commit-id-retrieved-using-reflog gt    This trick saved my life a couple of times   You can find the documentation of reflog HERE

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git reset HEAD  4    4 is changes before 4 steps ago  if you select a correct step  it should show the list of files that you removed from hard  then do     git reflog show   it s going to show you local commit history we ve already created  now do     git reset --hard 8c4d112   8c4d112 is a code you want to reset your hard there  let s look at  https   www theserverside com video How-to-use-the-git-reset-hard-command-to-change-a-commit-history to get more information

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While I was working on a local project  I wanted to move it to GitHub and then created a new repository  While I was trying to add all these files to the new repository with  gitignore  I accidentally added a wrong file and then tried to clear it    I ran git reset --hard origin master  P   Then all of my local files deleted because the repo was empty  I thought everything was gone   This saved my life   git reflog show git reset HEAD  1   git push    Hope it saves another life

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If you luckily had the same files opened on another editor  eg  Sublime Text  try a ctrl-z on those  It just saved me

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I just did git reset --hard and lost all my uncommitted changes  Luckily  I use an editor  IntelliJ  and I was able to recover the changes from the Local History  Eclipse should allow you to do the same

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The information is lost   Since you did not commit  your  git never stored this information  So  basically git cannot recover it for you   But  If you just did git diff  there is a way you can recover using the terminal output with the following 3 simple steps    scroll your terminal and look for the o p of git diff  Save the o p in a file called diff patch Search  amp  Replace all 7 spaces and 8 spaces with tab  t  character and save the changes  Go into your git repository  Apply the diff patch  patch -p1  lt  diff patch    You are saved      Note   While you are copying the data from terminal to a file  be careful and clearly see that the data is continuous output and did not contain any redundant data due to pressing up and down arrows   Otherwise you might mess it up

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If you are trying to use the code below   git reflog show   head to recover to git reset HEAD  1     and for some reason are getting       error  unknown switch  e    then try wrapping HEAD  1  in quotes  git reset  HEAD  1

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I accidentally ran git reset --hard on my repo today too while having uncommitted changes too today  To get it back  I ran git fsck --lost-found  which wrote all unreferenced blobs to  lt path to repo gt   git lost-found   Since the files were uncommitted  I found them in the other directory within the  lt path to repo gt   git lost-found   From there  I can see the uncommitted files using git show  lt filename gt   copy out the blobs  and rename them   Note  This only works if you added the files you want to save to the index  using git add     If the files weren t in the index  they are lost

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I found out the hard way that any uncommitted files before a git reset --hard  lt commit gt  gets removed from git history  However  I was lucky enough to have kept my code editor session open during the entire time I was pulling my hair out  that I discovered that a simple control   z in each of the affected files returned the state of the file back to the version before Git so obligingly reset everything I didn t ask it to specifically  Hooray

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By definition  git reset --hard will throw away uncommitted changes without any way for Git to recover them  your backup system may help  but not Git    Actually  there are very few cases where git reset --hard is a good idea  In most cases  there s a safer command to do the same thing    If you want to throw away your uncommitted changes  then use git stash  It will keep a backup of these changes  which will expire after some time if you run git gc  If you re 99 9  sure you ll never need these changes back  then git stash is still your friend for the 0 1  case  If you re 100  sure  then git stash is still your friend because these 100  have a measurement error  -   If you want to move your HEAD and the tip of the current branch in history  then git reset --keep is your friend  It will do the same thing as git reset --hard  but will not discard your local changes  If you want to do both  then git stash  amp  amp  git reset --keep is your friend    Teach your fingers not to use git reset --hard  it will pay back one day

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if you accidentally hard reset a commit  then do this   git reflog show git reset HEAD  2     i e where HEAD used to be two moves ago - may be different for your case   assuming HEAD  2  is the state you desire to go back to

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