Is there any way to recover uncommitted changes to the working directory from a git reset --hard HEAD?
Is there any way to recover uncommitted changes to the working directory from a
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Is there any way to recover uncommitted changes to the working directory from a git reset --hard HEAD?
You cannot get back uncommitted changes in general.
Previously staged changes (
git add) should be recoverable from index objects, so if you did, usegit fsck --lost-foundto locate the objects related to it. (This writes the objects to the.git/lost-found/directory; from there you can usegit show <filename>to see the contents of each file.)If not, the 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]
This will restore to the previous HEAD
[1] vim e.g. optionally stores persistent undo, eclipse IDE stores local history; such features might save your a**