How to find and restore a deleted file in a Git repository

Question

Say I\'m in a Git repository. I delete a file and commit that change. I continue working and make some more commits. Then, I find I need to restore that file.

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Answer 1

If you only made changes and deleted a file, but not commit it, and now you broke up with your changes

git checkout -- .

but your deleted files did not return, you simply do the following command:

git checkout 

And presto, your file is back.