Question

it had a existing git checkout and had made some modifications, then i checked out the same repo and it overwrote the folder. Is there some way to get the old repos with the uncommitted changes?

I had checked ” git reflog –all ” but it only gave me the most recent checkout.

EDIT: cannot reproduce the issue. so guessing i made a mistake somewhere

Answer 1

That would happen with a git checkout -f
(--force: When switching branches, proceed even if the index or the working tree differs from HEAD. This is used to throw away local changes)

But it shouldn’ be the case with a git clone on the same repo:

fatal: destination path 'myrepo' already exists and is not an empty directory.

If you did a git checkout -f, any changes added or private (not yet added) will be lost.