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

You could always git revert your commit which deleted the file. (This assumes that the deletion was the only change in the commit.)

> git log
commit 2994bda49cd97ce49099953fc3f76f7d3c35d1d3
Author: Dave 
Date:   Thu May 9 11:11:06 2019 -0700

    deleted readme.md

And if you've continued work, and realized later that you didn't want to commit that deletion commit, you could revert it using:

> git revert 2994bd

Now git log shows:

> git log
Author: Dave 
Date:   Thu May 9 11:17:41 2019 -0700

    Revert "deleted readme"

    This reverts commit 2994bda49cd97ce49099953fc3f76f7d3c35d1d3.

And readme.md has been restored into the repository.