Here is the problem: I have a project, I connected to my live git repo via netbeans, and I made a commit. Then I tried to pull the code, I got a message that do I want to merge with the master or I want to rebase, I accidentally rebased. Now I didn't had any git repo initialized in my local project (copied code from USB). Rebasing initialized a replica of git repo. what happened with this action is really annoying. All the changes that I made in the current directory are removed files are deleted too, I have recovered the deleted files. But I am still unable to go back to the state before rebase (i.e. fresh state). Any help will be really helpful.
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ASCII graphs of the current and desired states of your repo would help you get an answer. – jub0bs Dec 08 '14 at 18:51
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@Jubobs: how to get them – temp-learn Dec 08 '14 at 18:52
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See [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25488138/move-initial-commits-off-master-to-another-branch-in-git/25490288#25490288) for an example. – jub0bs Dec 08 '14 at 18:53
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"All the changes that I made in the current directory are removed files are deleted too" -- git goes to great lengths to never do that, [to the extent that it can confuse or annoy newcomers](https://www.google.com/webhp?q=please+commit+or+stash). Git simply won't stomp on uncommitted work without you outright ordering it to do so. "Now I didn't had any git repo initialized in my local project (copied code from USB). Rebasing initialized a replica of git repo" -- git rebase imply does not do this. Please add a tag for your IDE or whatever, people who understand it might know what it's doing. – jthill Dec 08 '14 at 21:10
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@jthill:adding a tag can bring me to initial state? – temp-learn Dec 08 '14 at 21:12
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No, add a tag to this question. – jthill Dec 08 '14 at 21:12
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Can you please show, by way of diagram, what your local branch looked like before and after the accidental rebase? E.g. master: A <- C, local: A <- B <- C – Tim Biegeleisen Dec 09 '14 at 12:51
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If you would like to continue/abort rebasing in Netbeans after resolving any conflicts. From the top menu click:
Team -> Branch/Tag -> Rebase...
Click Continue
or Abort

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git rebase --abort
in the command line (don't know in the Netbeans IDE) will revert the changes made during accidental rebase.
It's possible that you can find a backup of your commit using git reflog
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1`git rebase --abort` will only be useful if the rebase operation is still in progress. Whether that's the case here is unclear. – jub0bs Dec 08 '14 at 18:21
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@Jubobs If the rebase operation has finished, you'll get a regular commit. `--abort` resets to the previous HEAD. Check http://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase. – Martín Schonaker Dec 08 '14 at 18:25
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That is just not true. If you run `git rebase --abort` when no rebase operation is in progress, you only get the message `No rebase in progress?`. No commit is created and `HEAD` does not change. – jub0bs Dec 08 '14 at 18:40
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