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Nathan Harold
Nathan Harold

Reputation: 55

Git pull deleted local files

On my project, before pushing to the remote branch I just run the git pull command, and it just deleted all the (new) local files that weren't in the branch. And, I didn't get a backup, if the files are deleted it should be somewhere on my computer, right?

Does anyone has faced with a similar issue?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4621

Answers (2)

symlink
symlink

Reputation: 12209

Call git reflog to show a history of your actions in this repo. You should see something like this:

bb3139b... HEAD@{0}: pull : Fast forward
622f05a HEAD@{1}: commit: here i'm committing new local files

Basically you want to find the last commit you made before you lost your files. You want commit 622f05a, so use this: 

git reset 622f

This will "undo" your pull, but you can just git pull again whenever you want to to get those remote updates back.

Upvotes: 4

Nandu Raj
Nandu Raj

Reputation: 2110

Since you have committed your changes in local git, you can get rid of all changes and move to the current/previous commit(which you prefer).

This will reset everything to your current commit (getting rid of all changes, staged or otherwise):

git reset HEAD --hard

This will reset everything to the previous commit (also getting rid of all changes, staged or otherwise):

git reset HEAD^ --hard

the ^ next to HEAD means one commit before HEAD, HEAD being where you are currently. You can go two commits back by using ^^, or three with ^^^. Additionally, you can use a tilde to specify the number of commits: ~3 for three commits back.

git reset HEAD~3 --hard

Also, keep in mind that the --hard option means that these commands will throw away any changes you have that are not stashed.

Upvotes: 2

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