git undo deleted files

Question

I am new to git. I have checkout files from remote. I had to delete few files from the git repo. Instead of doing git rm command, I issued unix rm -rf folder command. I need to revert the delete command and then perform git rm command. How to revert to the latest code?

Note: I have not yet committed the staged files.The out out of git status is the list of files deleted in the below format:

#   deleted:    i18n/angular-locale_sl.js
#   deleted:    i18n/angular-locale_in.js 

Answer 1

If you have staged the deletion, first unstage it:

git reset HEAD path/to/deleted/file

Then restore the file:

git checkout path/to/deleted/file

Answer 2

Revert a git delete on your local machine

You're wanting to undo of git rm or rm followed by git add:

Restore the file in the index:

git reset -- <file>

after that check out from index

git checkout -- <file>

for example:

git reset -- src/main/java/de/foo/bar.java
git checkout -- src/main/java/de/foo/bar.java