Revert Xcode project without commit

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I might have wasted a lot of time. My commit wasn't working because of some warnings saying something about CLRF to LF.

I was looking for a fix and I did

$ rm .git/index
$ git reset --hard HEAD

Following an answer here, it being in the morning, not fully comprehending what it said I executed the commands and my project reverted to my latest commit (which was a while ago because of the warnings I didn't try to fix as soon as I got them).

I got the Xcode alert saying the project changed and if I wanted to revert it or keep the Xcode version, I clicked to keep the Xcode version. As soon as I looked at my project I saw a lot of files were gone, not to be found in the trashcan.

I'm afraid to touch the project or do anything other answers suggest in case I mess it up even more.

It would be devastating if I can not get the files back, anyone got into a similar situation?

BTW - **commit early, commit often**. It's _**very difficult**_ to lose things it git once it's committed. — evolutionxbox, Dec 11 '17 at 09:57
Yes, I hadn't commit in a while because of the warnings and thought I would just fix it later. I know that wasn't smart but never thought it would come to this — Bram-N, Dec 11 '17 at 09:58
You can't recover uncommitted changes which have been reset. Unless you have another system dealing with snapshots/backups. — evolutionxbox, Dec 11 '17 at 09:58
Possible duplicate of [Accidentally reverted to master, lost uncommitted changes](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7147680/accidentally-reverted-to-master-lost-uncommitted-changes) — evolutionxbox, Dec 11 '17 at 09:59
Oh god please no, is there not a single place where the files go? Are they instantly permanently gone? — Bram-N, Dec 11 '17 at 09:59
I am _really sorry_. I've been in your shoes and it sucks. This is the only time git can be horrible. Next time _always commit early_. — evolutionxbox, Dec 11 '17 at 10:00
Dont you have Time Machine backups (or any kind of backups) ? — Paul R, Dec 11 '17 at 10:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '17 at 10:20

when git removes an untracked/uncommitted file it's permanently erased so git has nothing to do to recover the file

you can give a recovery tool a try it might help, I'v used EaseUS Mac data recovery personally and it did recover a lot of my work after formatting disk accidentally.

hope it help you, I know that feeling

Revert Xcode project without commit

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