I performed the below steps -
- Initialize a new git repository using
git init. - Add some files to it.
- Perform
git add. - Delete a file using
git rm -f <fileName>
How to retrieve the deleted file above here? Kindly note there are no commits yet.
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2you can't, it is gone. – user253751 Jul 12 '22 at 11:54
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https://stackoverflow.com/a/57652357/5170424 try this – Shridhar Patil Jul 12 '22 at 11:56
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1One hope you have is that the file is still in the filecache of your editor. I had the luck once to find a needed file in the filecache of Notepad++. – David Jul 12 '22 at 11:56
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@ShridharPatil There is no commits. – AMOD MAHAJAN Jul 12 '22 at 12:00
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Always commit early and often – evolutionxbox Jul 12 '22 at 12:01
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Since you have run git add, the content of the file has been written in git objects store.
Run the following command :
git fsck --full --unreachable
# in the output, you should see lines looking like :
unreachable blob 08bf360988858a012dab3af4e0b0ea5f370a2ae8
unreachable blob 21bf7ea93f9f9cc2b3ecbed0e5ed4fa45c75eb89
unreachable blob 08c12ef37075732cf4645269ab5687ba6ba68943
...
Since you have no commit, you should have only a few lines like the above. You can inspect the content of each blob (a blob is a file in git parlance) :
git show 08bf360988858a012dab3af4e0b0ea5f370a2ae8
Once you have found the one you expect, just redirect the output :
git show 21bf7ea93f9f9cc2b3ecbed0e5ed4fa45c75eb89 > back-from-the-dead.txt
I have posted a few more details in this other answer
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