Recover from git reset --hard?

Question

Is there any way to recover uncommitted changes to the working directory from a git reset --hard HEAD?

Answer 1

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$ git reflog show  4b6cf8e (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) HEAD@{0}: reset: moving to origin/master 295f07d HEAD@{1}: pull: Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy. 7c49ec7 HEAD@{2}: commit: restore dependencies to the User model fa57f59 HEAD@{3}: commit: restore dependencies to the Profile model 3431936 HEAD@{4}: commit (amend): restore admin 033f5c0 HEAD@{5}: commit: restore admin ecd2c1d HEAD@{6}: commit: re-enable settings app  # assuming you want to get back to 7c49ec7 (restore dependencies to the User model)  $ git reset HEAD@{2} 

You got your day back! :)

Answer 2

You cannot get back uncommitted changes in general.

Previously staged changes (git add) should be recoverable from index objects, so if you did, use git fsck --lost-found to locate the objects related to it. (This writes the objects to the .git/lost-found/ directory; from there you can use git show <filename> to see the contents of each file.)

If not, the answer here would be: look at your backup. Perhaps your editor/IDE stores temp copies under /tmp or C:\TEMP and things like that.[1]

git reset HEAD@{1} 

This will restore to the previous HEAD

[1] vim e.g. optionally stores persistent undo, eclipse IDE stores local history; such features might save your a**