Unstage a deleted file in git

Question

Usually, to discard changes to a file you would do:

git checkout -- 

What if the change I want to discard is deleting the file?

Answer 1

I tried the above solutions and I was still having difficulties. I had other files staged with two files that were deleted accidentally.

To undo the two deleted files I had to unstage all of the files:

git reset HEAD .

At that point I was able to do the checkout of the deleted items:

git checkout -- WorkingFolder/FileName.ext

Finally I was able to restage the rest of the files and continue with my commit.