Files missing in Git repository

Question

• I made an empty private repository called "clonedRepo" .

• Then I cloned the empty repository locally on my machine under the folder htdocs.

• Then I dragged a folder called "codebase" that had all the code under the cloned empty repo "clonedRepo".

• Then I used the Github app for Mac OS X to commit and push all the code under the folder "codebase" to "clonedRepo" but the commit failed because a couple of video files were too large which is fair enough.

• I clicked the undo commit button.

• But all of a sudden all the files under "codebase" were gone. The directories remain but the files are gone.

• I tried "git stash list" for this local repo in the terminal but that just returns the default command prompt.

I didn't have backup of this code and its really important to me because I've been working on this since weeks but making it again from scratch will be time-consuming and mundane. Any idea how I could get it back? I didn't delete the local cloned repo or anything inside it. The local repo displays itself as being worth 302 MB but contains visible stuff worth only 46KB. Please help.

Answer 1

First of all I would like to thank @bitoiu , @Fredric & @eckes for their help.

• So basically when I added my codebase to an empty repository and committed, the commit couldn't be pushed because a video file in the codebase was larger than 100MB. On pressing "Undo the commit" I believed I lost all the codebase.

• But actually what happened was it moved to a hidden .git folder
  within the repository.

• To show hidden files under your repository, see this link : http://ianlunn.co.uk/articles/quickly-showhide-hidden-files-mac-os-x-mavericks/

• Then type git reflog to get present and past hash codes of the HEAD.

• Then type git reset --hard <hash code of the commit that introduced the files> to populate all the missing files under your
  repository.More info about git reset and on the use of --hard can be found here : Whats the difference between git reset --mixed, --soft, and --hard? .