Deleted origin branches. Need to restore them

Question

I was using branches for this exercise project and thought I should delete branches after I'm done. However I well prepared for what to delete and how and now I'm in a pickle. I found SO questions about restoring deleted branches, however I ran into another problem. I removed the appsettings file from my worktree and as can be seen from the two screenshots below, when I try to pull, it says I don't have any local changes and when I use git checkout , it says I do have local changes to the appsettings file. Keep in mind, I made the changes not from my local repo first, but from the remote one. I'm not sure why. I wanted to remove the sensitive information as soon as possible.

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Answer 1

Actually, you use git pull / stash in wrong way:

1. To commit something, you should add it to commit: git add some-file && git commit

2. Before stashing , you should better to add files

3. Finally, check git status before pulling , it shouldn't have any changes.