How to revert a git rm -r

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I accidentely said git rm -r    How do I recover from this   I did not commit   I think all files were marked for deletion and were also physically removed from my local checkout   EDIT  I could  if I knew the command  revert to the last commit  But it would be a lot better if I could just undo the git rm -r    Because I am not really sure what I did after the last commit and before the git rm -r

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Update   Since git rm   deletes all files in this and child directories in the working checkout as well as in the index  you need to undo each of these changes   git reset HEAD     This undoes the index changes git checkout       This checks out files in this and child directories from the HEAD   This should do what you want   It does not affect parent folders of your checked-out code or index     Old answer that wasn t   reset HEAD   will do the trick  and will not erase any uncommitted changes you have made to your files   after that you need to repeat any git add commands you had queued up

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I had an identical situation  In my case the solution was   git checkout --

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There are some good answers already  but I might suggest a little-used syntax that not only works great  but is very explicit in what you want  therefor not scary or mysterious   git checkout  lt branch gt    20 minutes ago    lt filename gt

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Get list commit  git log  --oneline   For example  Stable commit has hash  45ff319c360cd7bd5442c0fbbe14202d20ccdf81  git reset --hard 45ff319c360cd7bd5442c0fbbe14202d20ccdf81 git push -ff origin master

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If you ve committed and pushed the changes  you can do this to get the file back     Replace 2 with the   of commits back before the file was deleted  git checkout HEAD 2 path to file

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git reset HEAD   Should do it  If you don t have any uncommitted changes that you care about  then  git reset --hard HEAD   should forcibly reset everything to your last commit  If you do have uncommitted changes  but the first command doesn t work  then save your uncommitted changes with git stash   git stash git reset --hard HEAD git stash pop

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I had exactly the same issue  was cleaning up my folders  rearranging and moving files  I entered  git rm   and hit enter  and then felt my bowels loosen a bit  Luckily  I didn t type in git commit -m    straightaway    However  the following command  git checkout     restored everything  and saved my life

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With Git 2 23   August 2019   the proper command to restore files  and the index  woud be to use    git restore  not reset --hard or the confusing git checkout command   That is   git restore -s HEAD --staged --worktree --     Or its abbreviated form   git restore -s  -SW --

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undo git rm  git rm file               delete file  amp  update index git checkout HEAD file    restore file  amp  index from HEAD   undo git rm -r  git rm -r dir            delete tracked files in dir  amp  update index git checkout HEAD dir    restore file  amp  index from HEAD     undo git rm -rf  git rm -r dir            delete tracked files  amp  delete uncommitted changes not possible              uncommitted changes  can not be restored    Uncommitted changes includes not staged changes  staged changes but not committed

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If you end up with none of the above working  you might be able to retrieve data using the suggestion from here  http   www spinics net lists git msg62499 html  git prune -n git cat-file -p  lt blob   gt

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To regain some single files or folders one may use the following  git reset -- path to file git checkout -- path to file   This will first recreate the index entries for path to file and recreate the file as it was in the last commit  i e HEAD   Hint  one may pass a commit hash to both commands to recreate files from an older commit  See git reset --help and git checkout --help for details

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I git-rm d a few files and went on making changes before my next commit when I realized I needed some of those files back  Rather than stash and reset  you can simply checkout the individual files you missed removed if you want   git checkout HEAD path to file path to another file   This leaves your other uncommitted changes intact with no workarounds

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