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 know the commit that deleted the file(s), run this command where is the commit that deleted the file:

git diff --diff-filter=D --name-only ~1  | xargs git checkout ~1 --

The part before the pipe lists all the files that were deleted in the commit; they are all checkout from the previous commit to restore them.