Restoring a Deleted Commit in git

Posted in Tutorials

Not often needed.  But this tutorial will show you how to restore a commit that you have deleted in Git.

Suppose we have two commits so far…

And then suppose, we have deleted the “add new file” commit by running …

git reset –hard HEAD~

And are left with only the first commit.

Now we want to restore the commit we just deleted.

1. List all the dangling commits with “git fsck –lost-found”.  It stands for “file system consistency check”:

2. Get info on the SHA’s by “git reflog”.

3. Once you have the SHA, restore it with …

git merge 7176753

Note: this may not work if you had run “git gc”

 

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