git -add然后git -rm -r在提交之前删除了整个项目

Question

I'm on Windows 10, new to git. Lost my project before committing. I used git commands in this order (project name is DeltaSearch located in c:/git/dev/utils/DeltaSearch with c:/git/dev being the repository root).

git add DeltaSearch/* 

added too many files , then tried to start over

git rm Deltasearch/* -r -f

Entire project was deleted from the SSD. I've tried:

git reset -HEAD

It's still gone. Also tried:

git stash

git stash drop

Still gone. Afraid to try any other commands unless someone knows if this is fixable. Thank you.

Answer 1

Your content's still in the repo, that's what git add does, add content to the repo, but since you never committed wiping the index erased the only association with the right pathnames. Best you can do is

git fsck --lost-found

see its docs for what it does, basically look in .git/lost-found/other for the content you added and hopefully it won't be to hard to assign the right pathnames for each.