Question

It seems I somehow deleted some files in a folder, and I can’t remember their names etc.

Is it possible to list all files that have ever been created in a given folder?

e.g.

/db/scripts/

I then want to view the file if I deleted it.

Answer 1

Git only knows about files that were committed, it doesn’t keep track of random files. If the files were previously committed, AND you didn’t commit the deletes, then simply typing git status will show you the files that are missing from the repo.

If you did commit the delete, you type git log --name-status to see which files have been modified when.

Once you find the commit, to view the file you can either do

git show [that revision]

to see the diff, or

git checkout [that revsion where file existed]

and view it howerver on the filesystem. Note that if you do the second command, you won’t be on a branch anymore, so you will have to do git checkout master (or your previous branchname) to get back to your old state.