Find and restore a deleted file in a Git repository

Question

Say I'm in a Git repository. I delete a file and commit that change. I continue working and make some more commits. Then, I find I need to restore that file. I know I can check out a file using git checkout HEAD^ foo.bar , but I don't know when that file was deleted. What would be the quickest way to find the commit that deleted a given filename? What would be the easiest way to get that file back into my working copy? I'm hoping I don't have to manually browse my logs, check out the entire project for a given SHA and then manually copy that file into my original project checkout. Select the correct answer from above options

Answer 1

To resolve this issue first we need to find the last commit that affected the given path and delete it, for deleting follow the commands git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- To checkout the version before commit git checkout ^ -- If you are using zsh and have the EXTENDED_GLOB option enabled then use git checkout $(git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- "$file")~1 -- "$file" It will restore a deleted repository in the git repository.