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let's say yesterday I did some changes on my master branch, and I forgot to add, commit them. and in the morning i did
git reset --hard
is it possible to restore deleted files in this situation ?
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If you happened to git add these files at some point, even if you never committed them, they will still be hanging around as blobs until they're garbage collected (in about two weeks). git fsck will list the objects as dangling or unreachable. You can then use git cat-file -p deadbeef > old-file-name to restore them.
git reset --hard resets your index and reverts the tracked files back to state as they are in HEAD. It leaves untracked files alone.
Untracked basically means that Git sees a file you didn't have in the previous snapshot (commit), and which hasn't yet been staged; Git won't start including it in your commit snapshots until you explicitly tell it to do so.
How to restore deleted git-untracked files in vscode: Create the files with the same name at the same directory. Go to TIMELINE on the File Explorer. You can get the older versions of the files.
Some better IDEs keep track of your files as a local history. If you removed files externally (say, git reset) you should be able to click in your IDE on parent directory and choose "Compare with local history".
I used this feature successfully in PHPStorm IDE when my untracked files got wiped out by some utility...
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In Intellij how to recover the untracked revert changes
Step 1: Select the Folder , Right click on it
Setp 2: Go to Local History, and then go to Show history
Step 3: Select the untracked files that your revert accidentally. then select those file in right side panel and revert the changes, you will get the files in reverted format.
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git reset --hard is a very dangerous command, so be careful when you use it next time :)
If you do not have any commit for those files, it seems you have no chance restore them.
Otherwise, reflog command can help you.
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