When you deleted a file and need it back, you can access the file if it was once committed to your git.
- First, whatever you are doing, make sure to either save and commit or stash any changes for later
- Find the correct commit that has the file
git log # you can view the commit hash (unique id) and your comments- Once the commit you want to go to is identified, copy the hash
# you will check out (go back to) the commit identified as YOUR_HASH
git checkout YOUR_HASH
# you also have an option to create a new branch from this commit- You can move the file outside of the project directory
- Now, go back to the latest commit (HEAD)
git checkout HEAD