After committing, resetting head and then checking out the commit, git does not restore removed files

Question

After committing changes, I ran git reset --hard HEAD^ mistakenly and it caused me to lose the files in that committed changes.

I am trying to recover these files.

When I do git reflog it shows that previous commit, thatCommit, so I then proceed with:

git checkout thatCommit

However, none of the files are restored.

When I then type git checkout it prints out all the files that have been deleted:

D path/to/deletedFile1 D path/to/deletedFile2 M path/to/changedFile1 M path/to/changedFile2

I'd like the deleted files and changed files to be restored, but I cannot see path/to/deletedFile1 in my repo/branch.

How can I recover these files?

LeGEC · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-16 21:56:52Z

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Try

git checkout thatCommit -- .

(to force the working tree to be reinitialize to that commit content)

Or:

git reset --hard thatCommit

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