Hmm, I screwed up...
I have a repo and did a git add . for the first time.
But then realised there are a lot of files that should not be there, so I wanted to reset and then fix the .gitignore en then redo.
after doing git reset --hard
all my files are gone.
Question, is there a way to "undo" this?
Desperate for help. I have no other backup, pushing to git was supposed to be my backup ;>)
This link provided the method to recover the files.
git add + git reset hard deleted working copy file - undo?
It was a bit of a pain, but better than redoing all the work.
I used this command to list all the blobs into a text file (blobs.txt).
git fsck | awk '{if(/blob/) print $3}' > blobs.txt^C
Then I wrote a short bash script to loop through the file and cat the contents of each blob to a file. Here is the bash script:
#!/bin/bash
while read p; do
git cat-file blob $p > $p.txt
done <blobs.txt
That gave me a load of files named blobxxx.txt Then I had to manually go through each and determine the filename I needed. Bit of a process, but it worked since I only needed to find my source files.
BIG SIGH OF RELIEVE.
Basically, the answer is no. As you said you screwed up. For more detailed answer please follow this post: Recover from git reset --hard?
