Undo delete in GIT

Question

I made something very stupid. I made a commit using git commit (file edits + new files) (C). Then I made amend last commit. Then I deleted all files recursively (!) using

Answer 1

If I understood you correctly you rewrote commit C. So the original commit, let's call it C1 is not accessible from your commit graph, but it is still there (git keeps all commits for a while). Use git reflog to get the commit hash and git checkout or another appropriate command to get to the old state C1.