Undo deleted files in git?

Question

Newbie needs some help undoing a mess!

I was tring to push my site to a git repository, so I used the git add command. Then, before I did the commit, I realized I had a

Answer 1

have you tried git reset --hard (commit # before this horrible accident)?

then use git pull origin master to extract files from the online git repo to get your files back.

A more in depth explanation of this process is located on this SO thread.