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 the same question. Without knowing it, I had created a dangling commit.

List dangling commits

git fsck --lost-found

Inspect each dangling commit

git reset --hard

My files reappeared when I moved to the dangling commit.

git status for the reason:

“HEAD detached from ”