How to find and restore a deleted file in a Git repository

Question

Say I\'m in a Git repository. I delete a file and commit that change. I continue working and make some more commits. Then, I find I need to restore that file.

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Answer 1

For the best way to do that, try it.

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First, find the commit id of the commit that deleted your file. It will give you a summary of commits which deleted files.

git log --diff-filter=D --summary

git checkout 84sdhfddbffffdf~1

Note: 84sdhfddbffffd is your commit id

Through this you can easily recover all deleted files.