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Kai
Kai

Reputation: 81

Recover Git local repository

If I have a Git account on, say, GitHub, and previously I have set up the local repository, have committed and pushed several times.

Now I have carelessly deleted the local repository (.git), but the remote repository is still there in GitHub, how can I rebuild the deleted local repository and continue to commit and push without harming the old commits?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7121

Answers (2)

juancarlos
juancarlos

Reputation: 631

If you have deleted the local repository, but you have pushed your commits to the GitHub repository, you only need to re-clone the project by doing git clone <url>, and your work is ready...

Upvotes: 4

user404
user404

Reputation: 2028

You need to initialize a new Git repository in your machine:

git init

Add your remote repository (published on GitHub):

git remote add origin https://github.com/exampleusername/example_repo.git

fetch the origin:

git fetch

Then you can update your local branch with any branch you want:

git pull origin example_branch_name_you_want_to_take_update_from

Or you can simply clone the existing remote repository as suggested in the above comments:

git clone https://your_repot_url

Upvotes: 2

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