You can sometimes recover deleted files... http://www.ehow.com/how_2064953_recover-deleted-files-linux.html
David Davis ☄ Software Engineer http://xant.us/ http://xantus.tel/ On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 05:15, paulatz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I seriously need help with git, I hope you can help. > > I'm working on a quite big open-source software projects which is > managed with svn. Because I'm developing an extensive separate branch > (a task that takes about one year or more), and for logistic reasons, > I've got my copy which I keep up to date with the svn and manage > locally with git. > > I don't use many fancy git features: I initialized the repository, > only adding the source file of a few directories (the others I'm not > going to touch) and commit my edits regularly to keep track of what > I'm changing and being able to revert (reset, in git talk) them if > necessary. > > Well, a few hours ago I needed to reset the source code *in a specific > subdirectory* to a previous state in order to check when a problem > appeared, so I typed > git reset --hard -q b793...(the revision number) > ok, the code has been reverted, but all the files in the parent > directory, which I (think I) had never added to the repository, and > for sure I had never modified, have been destroyed, erase, canceled > and wiped out. > > Is there any way to recover them? Where have they gone? I've been > reading git documentation for hours now, but I cannot find any mention > of similar issues. > > thank you in advance > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GitHub" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<github%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en.
