My local branches got wiped and I would like to retrieve the files I've been working on from Github. I am new to Git and am not sure how to do this. From Googling, this is what I've tried:
git checkout -b some-branchgit pull project-name some-branchHowever, this seems to pull in a lot of other files, not associated with what I am working on.
Would anyone know how to set up my branch again and retrieve just my files?
From your comments, it seems like you are not running git commands from the git repository. This can mean that either you are running the commands in the wrong place, or you deleted the .git folder. If you have deleted the .git folder, clone your repository from github, as you have mentioned in the question.
To get the branch code, the best way would be to move inside your respective git repository and run git fetch origin some-branch then git checkout some-branch
Do you see your work on Github.com? If so, your work should be safe.
You could pull from origin (assuming remote is set):
git pull origin master
Or you could even clone the whole repo:
git clone https://github.com/project/project.git
In case your work is not there on Github, then it's either you never pushed your changes to Github, which you can't recover, or maybe the remote branches on Github were deleted as well. If you believe your work was deleted on Github, contact their support as soon as possible.
git branch all. If so, just checkout the corresponding branch and you are all goodfatal: Not a git repository