Git - Undo forced checkout from IntelliJ IDE

Question

I had some uncommitted changes in my local, by mistake, I did force checkout instead of smart checkout in IntelliJ

Is there any way to revert back?

Answer 1

The only way is to open VCS → Local History menu and revert to a state which was before your Forced Checkout.

Important things to notice:

1. Be sure to select the whole project folder first, otherwise you would be looking at Local History for only currently active file.
2. You will revert to the state that was before your checkout, which means you would have to extract lost changelist files through a lot of rubbish.