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

I had to restore a bunch of deleted files from a specific commit, and I managed it with two commands:

git show  --diff-filter=D --summary --name-only --no-commit-id | xargs git checkout ^ -- 
git show  --diff-filter=D --summary --name-only --no-commit-id | xargs git reset HEAD 

(Note the trailing space on the end of each command.)

The files had been added to the .gitignore file and then cleared with git rm. I needed to restore the files, but then unstage them. I had hundreds of files to restore, and typing things manually for each file as in the other examples was going to be far too slow.