Git undo local branch delete

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I just deleted the wrong branch with some experimental changes I need with git branch -D branchName   How do I recover the branch

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If you haven t push the deletion yet  you can simply do      git checkout deletedBranchName

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First  back up your entire directory  including the  git directory   Second  You can use git fsck --lost-found to obtain the ID of the lost commits   Third  rebase or merge onto the lost commit   Fourth  Always think twice before using -D or --force with git     You could also read this good discussion of how to recover from this kind of error   EDIT  By the way  don t run git gc  or allow it to run by itself - i e  don t run git fetch or anything similar  or you may lose your commits for ever

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You can use git reflog to find the SHA1 of the last commit of the branch  From that point  you can recreate a branch using  git branch branchName  lt sha1 gt    Edit  As  seagullJS says  the branch -D command tells you the sha1  so if you haven t closed the terminal yet it becomes real easy  For example this deletes and then immediately restores a branch named master2   user MY-PC  C MyRepo  master    git branch -D master2 Deleted branch master2  was 130d7ba       lt -- This is the SHA1 we need to restore it   user MY-PC  C MyRepo  master    git branch master2 130d7ba

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If you deleted a branch via Source Tree  you could easily find the SHA1 of the deleted branch by going to View - gt  Show Command History  It should have the next format  Deleting branch         Deleted branch  NAME   was  SHA1        Then just follow the original answer  git branch branchName  lt sha1 gt

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Follow these Steps   1  Enter    git reflog show    This will display all the Commit history  you need to select the sha-1 that has the last commit that you want to get back  2  create a branch name with the Sha-1 ID you selected eg  8c87714  git branch your-branch-name 8c87714

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This worked for me   git fsck --full --no-reflogs --unreachable --lost-found git show d6e883ff45be514397dcb641c5a914f40b938c86 git branch helpme 15e521b0f716269718bb4e4edc81442a6c11c139

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If you just deleted the branch  you will see something like this in your terminal   Deleted branch branch name was e562d13          where e562d13 is a unique ID  a k a  the  SHA  or  hash    with this you can restore the deleted branch       To restore the branch  use   git checkout -b  lt branch name gt   lt sha gt    for example   git checkout -b branch name e562d13

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Thanks  this worked       git branch new branch name sha1      git checkout new branch name     can see my old checked in files in my old branch

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If you know the last SHA1 of the branch  you can try git branch branchName  lt SHA1 gt   You can find the SHA1 using git reflog  described in the solution --defect link--

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