Retrieve missing files from remote repo?

Question

I accidentally deleted a few files from my local git repo.

I have not pushed this change to the remote.

Is there a easy way to get these files back from the remo

Answer 1

To discard all local changes, you can do:

git checkout .

To avoid losing local changes, do this instead:

git ls-files -d -z | xargs -0 git checkout --

(Taken from http://data.agaric.com/restore-locally-deleted-files-git They also suggest using git update -- . but that is not a valid git command.)