如何使用 git 恢复已删除的代码文件

Question

I was developing a web application. I also used Git with it. For approximately one month, I didn't push to Github. During my attempt to push updated code today, I found a file with a memory size of approximately 500 MB. It shows the error that the file is too large for Github. Therefore, I tried removing that file from the commit in the staging area. I then added that file to.gitignore. Following that, I tried git reset and git trash . However, they did not work. Using the command git add and then git commit with the updated commit. The file is still listed there. I found the command git reset --hard 'origin/main' on StackOverflow. The command reverted the previous commit, and I lost all my code. The git logs do not show any updated commits. Would it be possible to find that code there?

I added the screenshot from git reflog .

When I run the below command, I need the files before Update after forecasting. It shows the error attached in the screenshot.

git checkout 950362c -b restored_branch

Answer 1

git reflog shows a kind of history of the actions you performed in git. Each linehas the commit hash and what you did there.

The first line shows that you had commit 6a49195 and performed a reset on it. Assuming git hasn't GCed yet (and if you didn't do anything else since it shouldn't have), this commit should still exist, even though its no longer associated with any branch, and you should be able to check it out:

git checkout 6a49195 -b restored_branch