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Envy Josh
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 821 Pointshow to retrieve file with git
How can I then retrieve a file that have been deleted and I have also deleted it using git with this comman git rm
2 Answers
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsNeed a little more detail to answer this question. Such as, when was this file deleted? Has the change been committed? If so, the file deletion commit was made how many commits ago?
But in any case, there's always one method you can use to retrieve the deleted file, by using git checkout commit hash ID.
First type in
git log
This will list all the past commits along w/ their commit hash ID, hash ID is a character strings looks sth like this 4a02b5fc3d9759ed8d3180b37cd982c8b30f8696.
Look through the commit history and find a commit prior to the file deletion, copy its commit hash ID, then enter this command.
git checkout 4a02b5fc3d9759ed8d3180b37cd982c8b30f8696
git will take you back to this particular commit and the deleted file is retrieved.
Envy Josh
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 821 PointsYou are a life saver, Thank you so much