How to recover locally deleted files that has not been committed after changes

Question

I have a folder that all files have been deleted. I can see all the files by doing this command :

git ls-files --deleted

I've made locally changes that have not been added/committed.

How can I restore all the files with my last modifications ?

Thanks !

Answer 1

If you run git status you will be given some information about the current state and what you could do.

You may recover a locally deleted file, to a state known to git, with:

git checkout -- <file>

Any changes made to the file is lost if you have not staged it ( git add <file> ) before you deleted it.

Some IDE:s keeps a local history of files changed by the IDE, maybe you could find your changes there after you restored them from git.