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Restore locally deleted files with git

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on April 27, 2009 - 5:46am
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In SVN, running svn update will restore any files you have deleted locally where you have not explicitly committed the removal. Not so in git (or at least git-svn) for removed or moved files.

The tip found will restore not just one, but every deleted file. Agaric recommends you check what you're restoring with just git ls-files -d (where -d stands for --delete) first.

git ls-files -d | xargs git checkout --

From http://distilledb.com/blog/archives/date/2009/03/29/restoring-accidentally-deleted-files-with-git.page

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git ls-files -d -z | xargs -0 git checkout --

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on August 12, 2009 - 5:05pm.

git ls-files -d -z | xargs -0 git checkout --

It works fine, but git update

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on October 13, 2010 - 12:16am.

It works fine, but

git update -- .

is even simpler.

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