I was playing around with some Git commands and accidentally deleted the folders on my local machine that were set to "untrack" in my .gitignore (is this coincidental?)
I didn't realize they got deleted until after the entire session of trying out Git commands. I have been trying to retrace my steps to figure out which commands or actions caused me to lose my folders, but to no avail. It's been bugging me for a while so... it would be great if any Git users can point out what commands may have caused my local folders to get deleted. They didn't even appear in the trash can... I have no idea how it happened. I went through the commands I used during the period, and they were (some commands were typed many times over): git init git commit -m "some message" git push git push origin master git push -u origin master git add . git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf databases/' HEAD git rebase -i HEAD~2 git reset --hard HEAD git push origin master --force git log git status Just to clarify, I did not use the following commands at all: git checkout git pull git clone I have also deleted the .git folder and performed git init again at least once, just in case this action is key to figuring out how in the world I managed to delete my local folders... I will also appreciate if any Git users can point out how to prevent future accidental deletions on my local machine (I will want to keep all the folders, databases, uploads, cache etc on local machine, but only keep the code base on version control). I thought Git doesn't touch my local folders as long as I'm just "pushing" to the repo! Thanks and Happy Holidays!
