Question

I commited a wrong file, so I wanted to clean it up, but accidentally I overwrote all my files in the directory with last files committed to git.

Help please!

What I did:

git add fileIdidnotwanttoadd
git rm -r --cached .
git reset --hard HEAD

result: All my fixes are gone! I fixed 3 very hard bugs and it’s all gone!

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Edit:

Thank you all. I used most of your suggestions, still had to redo a few things, but all is restored now. No more perfectionism, I learned my lesson!

Answer 1

(from: Recover from git reset –hard?)

You cannot get back uncommitted changes in general, so the real answer here would be: look at your backup. Perhaps your editor/IDE stores temp copies under /tmp or C:\TEMP and things like that.[1]

git reset HEAD@{1}

This will restore to the previous HEAD – in case you had something committed earlier

[1]

• vim e.g. optionally stores persistent undo,
• eclipse IDE stores local history;

such features might save your a**