git undo deleted files

git git-rm git-stage
Pradeep picture Pradeep · Apr 28, 2014 · Viewed 22k times · Source

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

VonC picture VonC · Apr 28, 2014

I need to revert the delete command and then perform git rm command. How to revert to the latest code?

Simply do a (since you haven't committed anything):

cd /root/of/your/repo
git checkout HEAD -- .

That will restore the working tree to the index.

(A git reset --hard should work too, but isn't needed here)

But you could also register those deletion to the index directly:

git add -A .

See "What's the difference between git add . and git add -u?"

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