Git - deleted some files locally, how do I get them from a remote repository
GitGit Problem Overview
I've deleted some files on my PC, how do I download them again?
Pull says: "Already up-to-date".
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
Since git is a distributed VCS, your local repository contains all of the information. No downloading is necessary; you just need to extract the content you want from the repo at your fingertips.
If you haven't committed the deletion, just check out the files from your current commit:
git checkout HEAD <path>
If you have committed the deletion, you need to check out the files from a commit that has them. Presumably it would be the previous commit:
git checkout HEAD^ <path>
but if it's n commits ago, use HEAD~n, or simply fire up gitk, find the SHA1 of the appropriate commit, and paste it in.
Solution 2 - Git
git checkout filename
git reset --hard might do the trick as well
Solution 3 - Git
If you have deleted multiple files locally but not committed, you can force checkout
$ git checkout -f HEAD
Solution 4 - Git
If you deleted multiple files locally and did not commit the changes, go to your local repository path, open the git shell and type.
$ git checkout HEAD .
All the deleted files before the last commit will be recovered.
Adding "." will recover all the deleted the files in the current repository, to their respective paths.
For more details checkout the documentation.
Solution 5 - Git
You need to check out a previous version from before you deleted the files. Try git checkout HEAD^ to checkout the last revision.
Solution 6 - Git
Also, I add to do the following steps so that the git repo would be correctly linked with the IDE:
$ git reset <commit #>
$ git checkout <file/path>
I hope this was helpful!!
Solution 7 - Git
This is a rather niche use-case (although funnily enough answers the question as stated exactly), but just in case anyone ever needs this: if you do git filter-branch removing a file along with its history and then you want to recover just the latest versions of the removed files, git checkout filename won't be enough (because the file is no longer in the local history of the repository) and you need to specify that you want to reset to the remote version using git checkout origin/main -- filename.
Solution 8 - Git
In the code directory: git checkout .