Today I found out that we deleted a file in one of our projects that we actually needed. We deleted it a few weeks ago and therefore I had no idea what commit it was a part of or how to actually get a hold of it. The process for retrieving this file in Git is incredibly easy.
To restore a deleted file in Git, say one that existed at “Source/deleted-git-file.txt” in my repository, first we need to find what commit we deleted it in. To do this, we use the Git rev-list command:
git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- Source/deleted-git-file.txt
This will output a commit hash that might look like this:
6d8e24d4236627a35f56f32947ae5593fc917880
That represents the commit where the file was deleted. To retrieve the file, we will do a git checkout on the previous commit for the specific file. That looks like this:
git checkout 6d8e24d4236627a35f56f32947ae5593fc917880^ -- Source/deleted-git-file.txt
That will checkout that file into your working copy as a new file. You will then need to git add and then git commit them.
Big thanks to Stack Overflow for providing the solution to this!
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