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Angelo
Angelo

Reputation: 427

Recover from git reset --hard HEAD

I need help, I had files that were not added to the repo yet. I did 

 git add this.php
 git add file.php

then I decided I wanted to unstage them so I did 

 git reset --hard HEAD

Now these files are gone. How can I recover these files?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 79

Answers (2)

knittl
knittl

Reputation: 265918

Luckily for you, you added those file to the index before nuking them from your working copy. In this case they are already contained in Git's object database. (First create a backup, just in case you mess something up).

Run git fsck (maybe with --full flag) and look out for "dangling blobs". Then use git show $hash to display the contents of the blobs. If you find your files (there might be several similar versions), use git show $hash > path/to/file to write them to disk again.

Upvotes: 5

gravetii
gravetii

Reputation: 9654

You cannot recover the files after a hard reset without having committed them.

You should have rather done a soft/mixed reset, which will just unstage the files. You can see the same suggestion from git when you do a git status after staging the files.

Upvotes: 0

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