Get back the changes after accidental checkout?

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Autodidact picture Autodidact · Jun 2, 2010 · Viewed 60.9k times · Source

The following was the status of my repo.

[~/rails_apps/jekyll_apps/nepalonrails (design)⚡] ➔ gst
# On branch design
# Changed but not updated:
#   (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#   modified:   _layouts/default.html
#   deleted:    _site/blog/2010/04/07/welcome-to-niraj-blog/index.html
#   deleted:    _site/blog/2010/04/08/the-code-syntax-highlight/index.html
#   deleted:    _site/blog/2010/05/01/showing-demo-to-kalyan/index.html
#   deleted:    _site/config.ru
#   deleted:    _site/index.html
#   deleted:    _site/static/css/style.css
#   deleted:    _site/static/css/syntax.css
#   modified:   static/css/style.css
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

Accedently, I did git checkout -f and now the changes are gone which I wasnt supposed to do.

[~/rails_apps/jekyll_apps/nepalonrails (design)⚡] ➔ git co -f
[~/rails_apps/jekyll_apps/nepalonrails (design)] ➔ gst
# On branch design
nothing to commit (working directory clean)
[~/rails_apps/jekyll_apps/nepalonrails (design)] ➔

Can I get back the changes back?

Answer

gigi2 picture gigi2 · Feb 2, 2012

Another thing you can look at is through your IDE. I accidentally checkout 2 files and was able to bring back the changes through the 'local history' of my IDE (netbeans). What a blessing!

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