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Once upon a time, there was a file in my project that I would now like to be able to get.
The problem is: I have no idea of when have I deleted it and on which path it was.
How can I locate the commits of this file when it existed?
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If you have committed the deletion and pushed it to GitHub, it is possible to recover a deleted file using the GitHub Web UI. GitHub lets you browse the commit history and explore the project at any point in history, which then allows you to view and download any file.
If your commit was used to delete the file you are trying to recover, just use shacommit~1 (ex: git checkout 0f4bbdcd~1 -- path/to/file. txt ) to get the commit immediately before.
To find out which files changed in a given commit, use the git log --raw command. It's the fastest and simplest way to get insight into which files a commit affects.
If you do not know the exact path you may use
git log --all --full-history -- "**/thefile.*" If you know the path the file was at, you can do this:
git log --all --full-history -- <path-to-file> This should show a list of commits in all branches which touched that file. Then, you can find the version of the file you want, and display it with...
git show <SHA> -- <path-to-file> Or restore it into your working copy with:
git checkout <SHA>^ -- <path-to-file>
Note the caret symbol (^), which gets the checkout prior to the one identified, because at the moment of <SHA> commit the file is deleted, we need to look at the previous commit to get the deleted file's contents
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Get a list of the deleted files and copy the full path of the deleted file
git log --diff-filter=D --summary | grep delete Execute the next command to find commit id of that commit and copy the commit id
git log --all -- FILEPATH Show diff of deleted file
git show COMMIT_ID -- FILE_PATH Remember, you can write output to a file using > like
git show COMMIT_ID -- FILE_PATH > deleted.diff If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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