Undoing File Deletions

• Suppose we accidentally deleted a file from our working directory that we actually wanted to keep, like our main site page:

rm medals.html

• Git makes it pretty easy to recover the file.
• As before, let's run git status, and it will show the deleted file:

$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#       deleted:    medals.html
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

• Also as before, there's a message saying use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory.
• This is similar to using git checkout to discard modifications to a file's contents. But in this case, the change we want to discard is the deletion of the file - we want to bring the file back.
• If we run that command: git checkout -- medals.html, the file, and all its contents will be restored.