December 01, 2023  SEONews
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Recovering Deleted Files From Your Git Working Tree — Smashing Magazine


Git is designed to assure us, as developers, that we can track a project’s files at different points in time. But what it doesn’t assure us is that those files are always safe along the way. For those of you who have dealt with the sinking feeling that you’ve irrevocably deleted and lost files, Sanmi Akande has a couple of approaches that, in the right situations, may help bring them back.

There are times when mistakes happen, and useful and important files are deleted by error or lost from your file system irrevocably (or seemingly, at least). Version control systems make it difficult to permanently lose files, provided they have been either added to staging or committed to a remote repository, because Git allows you to undo or revert changes and access previous versions of the saved files.

It is also possible to erroneously erase files from both the working directory and the Git repository. I’ve certainly done that! I imagine you have, too, if you’re reading this, and if that’s the case, then you will need a way to recover those files.

I have a few methods and strategies you can use to recover your deleted files. Some are more obvious than others, and some are designed for very specific situations. And while it is indeed possible to irrevocably lose a file, even then, you may have a path to at least recover a copy of it with third-party software if it comes to that.

How Git Works With Files

Before we dive into all of that, let’s explore how your files journey from...



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