Restore deleted file not staged in git

Question

I accidentally removed the entire directory of my source code...with a nice rm -r. I know, really bad; but fortunately, I had a git repo in the containing directory. Thus, g

Answer 1

git won't have stored any changes that were never added or committed. The best you can do is git checkout that deleted directory, and you'll get it back in the state it was in when things were last committed.

git checkout

The local uncommitted changes you are seeing is probably the uncommitted deletion, i.e. git sees that you've deleted a bunch of files, but you haven't committed the fact that they are deleted yet, so git says 'hey, there are some changes (in this case, deletions) you haven't committed.'