Git find a deleted file in history

Step 2: Now, it's time to commit the staged deletion to the local repository with the following command:. Then by rerunning the git status command, you should get a response from Git that you are in a clean working directory and you got nothing more to commit. At this step, Git deleted the file on the local repository only, but if you went to the remote repository on GitHub, you'd find that the file still exists there.

Step 4: To push the committed deletion to the remote repository, run the following command:. After running the previous push command, the file should no more be existing in GitHub and Git should show a response like the one in the following screenshot:. By running the previous four steps, you should have the file removed entirely from Git commit history and the remote repository. Let's assume that you want to remove the "level1" directory under the "Kaizen" project.

If you followed the previous command by a git status command, you'd find that Git staged the directory deletion and the files beneath it to be committed. At this step, you can run the git commit command followed by the push command to push the removal up to the remote repository in GitHub as shown in deleting a file in the previous section. You can delete files directly from GitHub by going to the repository page, click the file to remove, then on the file page click the delete icon as shown in the following screenshot:.

Once you click the delete icon, GitHub will send you to the next step where you will be prompted to enter a commit message, and an optional commit description then click the "Commit Changes" green button to commit your changes. Once the changes are committed, it's time that you align your local repository with the changes that happened on the remote one - which is the file deletion.

To align your local repository, you will need to run the following Git pull command:. Once you pulled all the changes successfully, you can check your local repository's file structure, and you will find that the last pull removed the file.

This section shows how you can back out your changes to a file after staging or committing it to the history. To demonstrate this, you are going to add a couple of changes to a single file, one of them will be committed while the other one will be staged, then you will undo both with commands. Let's assume you are going to do these changes to the "hipster.

Step 1 - Editing the file: To edit this file from Git bash, type in the following command:. The above command will run successfully assuming that you configured notepad as the default file editor in your Git bash installation.

Otherwise, you can edit the file manually using any other external editor. Now let's add some text to that file then close notepad. Step 2 - Add the change to the staging area then committing it : As previously shown, you can stage your changes by running the following command:.

Then commit your changes by running the following command:. Step 3 - Adding the second change and staging it: As shown in step 2, repeat the same procedure by editing the file, adding your second amendment to the staging area, but this time, do not commit your changes. Step 4 - Checking Git status and viewing the history: Now let's make sure that the previous three procedures are done correctly by running a git status command followed by a git log to see the history of changes in the local repository.

To do this, type in the following commands:. In this case, Git will show you that the second change is found in the staging area while the first modification is in the commit history of the local repository as shown in the screenshot below:. Step 5 - Backing out the changes in the staging area: In this step, we will execute the Git bash command that backs out the second change done to "hipster.

To undo the staged change, run the following command:. By running the previous command, Git will unstage the second change done to "hipster. By default, git-recover will only look at loose object files, which limits it to the most recently created files. Examining packfiles may be slow, especially in large repositories. The file will be written to the current working directory and named using its 40 character object ID, unless the -f option is specified.

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