Git + Rails: How to restore files deleted with “git rm -r”?

Question

I deleted my db folder in a rails application in with git rm -r

I\'ve tried

git reset HEAD

and

git reset --hard HEAD
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Answer 1

You can checkout the file from the commit where it still exists. Here's how to do it.

git checkout  -- db
# Example:
git checkout 6936142 -- db

# This also works, but if you have a branch named the same as the file or path,
# it will throw an error.
git checkout 6936142 db