Using Git for Windows - Accidentally lost a ton of work. Can I get it back?

Question

I am so confused and I think I\'ve lost hours of work.

I was editing a file in Git earlier, and I saved it, but did not commit. I did do a few other file changes, an

Answer 1

You could now (March 2013) check, with GitHub for Windows, if you can undo a "Rollback":

See "Undo Button in GitHub for Windows"

we've added Undo support for Discards, Commits, Rollbacks, and Merges:

I don't know if the rollback would save your unstaged and uncommitted changes though, so that new "Undo" button might not be a good enough solution.

Answer 2

You say that you didn't commit it. Unfortunately git only saves commits and not undone work. So, as sorry as I am, there is no way to use git to get your work back.

But you could try to restore the deleted files.

You might also want to have a look at this coding horror post.