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Alex G
Alex G

Reputation: 747

Get back branches that were deleted locally

A bunch of SO questions/answers on pruning the local repo from origin, but I couldn't find an answer for this:

I have a repo test with branches master, branch1, branch2. I ran git branch -d branch1 branch2, and now they no longer show. Let's say I want to get these back in my local repo. How do I do this? (Note: This is for learning, so I don't want to use reflog to restore; I'm trying to understand why I can't get the branches back using the commands I've learned to pull from the server.)

I tried doing git fetch --all, as well as reset --hard origin/master, and a couple other things, but while git shows the branches existing on remote (git branch --all returns /remote/origin/test1 as well as for /origin/test2), I can't get them back on my local copy.

What do I do?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 36

Answers (1)

eftshift0
eftshift0

Reputation: 30317

By fetching you are updating the remote branches (references) on your local. You could create local branches from them:

git branch branch1 origin/branch1

And in case you really lost them locally and have no remote references, you can always check the reflog to get the IDs and create branches from them

git branch branch1 some-old-revision-id

Upvotes: 1

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