Getting back files deleted by an accidental git revert

Question

I was trying to push my code to my git but accidentally did a git revert. It looks like this:

[master 36aff31] Revert "Addded files"
 54 files changed, 44739 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 myfolder/.DS_Store
 delete mode 100644 myfolder/1198232958151161470_462274348.jpg
 delete mode 100644 myfolder/localfile.py
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I did a git checkout . in order to get files back but nothing happened. How can I get my files back?

Answer 1

If you want to keep your commit history clean while undoing your accidental git revert , you can use git reset with the --hard option to set the state of your working directory back to the commit immediately before the current (revert) commit ( HEAD^ ):

git reset --hard HEAD^

NB: be sure that you haven't made any other commits since the accidental commit or this will discard those changes from your working directory.

If you don't care about a clean commit history, running a second git revert is probably safer.