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Here's a magical formula you can use to find every single file deletion in the history of your repo: Here's a magical formula you can use to find every single file deletion in the history of your repo:
git log --diff-filter=D --summary git log --diff-filter=D --summary
That will give you every commit that deleted things, and what was deleted. That will give you every commit that deleted things, and what was deleted.
To bring back all the files deleted in a given commit, where COMMITHASH is the commit hash, use this command: To bring back all the files deleted in a given commit, where COMMITHASH is the commit hash, use this command:
git checkout COMMITHASH^1 -- . git checkout COMMITHASH^1 -- .
to bring back only a specific file: to bring back only a specific file:
git checkout COMMITHASH^1 -- path/to/file.txt git checkout COMMITHASH^1 -- path/to/file.txt
to bring back only a subdirectory: to bring back only a subdirectory:
git checkout COMMITHASH^1 -- sub/directory git checkout COMMITHASH^1 -- sub/directory
that will bring them back into the staging area. You can see which ones just reappeared by typing: that will bring them back into the staging area. You can see which ones just reappeared by typing:
git status git status
then you can actually make the restore permanent by typing: then you can actually make the restore permanent by typing:
git commit -m "I just resurrected some files" git commit -m "I just resurrected some files"