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MJMacarty
MJMacarty

Reputation: 537

create a new copy of local git repo

I am working on a Java web project where I m responsible for the web content. The other developers are not interested in using git, but that is another story. So I created a repo for the WebContent folder. But recently there were so many changes to the java src files that I decided to do a wholesale delete and replacement of the entire project on my test server, only to realize too late that I deleted things like .git, and ignore. So my question is what should I do? Do I do a pull? Do I just git init again, add everything and commit? Tganks for any insight.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 43

Answers (1)

isomarcte
isomarcte

Reputation: 1981

If you deleted everything, then you just have to clone again and recreate your work and .gitignore.

If it was really important stuff that you could not replace, you could attempt to file carve (recover deleted files from the File System) against the device.

For instance tools like extundelete (http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/) allow you to do this (assuming and ext based File System), but there is no guarantee that it will work.

It is probably better just to recreate the data.

Upvotes: 1

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