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Dan Knights
Dan Knights

Reputation: 8378

Accidental directory deletion - Git

I accidentally deleted all of my files whilst trying to push them to GitHub in what would have been the first commit (I have no idea how I managed this).

I have no local backup and no remote backup but in my GitLens VSCode extension the files are still there and viewable: enter image description here

How can I revert my current file tree back to what's being shown in GitLens?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 131

Answers (2)

Dan Knights
Dan Knights

Reputation: 8378

I managed to recover all the files aside from vendor and node_modules, ran npm install and composer install and this fixed that issue. Still not sure how this happened though. Will have to brush up on my git skills methinks.

Upvotes: 0

Srinivasan
Srinivasan

Reputation: 33

Since you can see in gitlens, it means your files are present in previous commit.

You can do checkout to get it back as @mr.mams mentioned. You can also undo your commit, check How do I undo the most recent local commits in Git?

To merge two commits you need to squash your commits. Check Squash my last X commits together using Git

Upvotes: 2

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