How to get lost files back resulting from running git add and git restore -s@ -SW?
Problem:
suppose you ran
$ git add .
then you ran
$ git status
and saw that you have added some files which you did not want to add.
(You did not run
$ git commit
)
then you wanted to remove them from the index.
In haste, you ran
$ git restore -s@ -SW
resulting in those files are gone away from your working tree (resulted from -W).
You want to get them back.
Solution:
Run
$ git fsck --cach --no-reflogs --lost-found --unreachable head
You will get a list of SHA1, which point to your lost files.
Then run
$ git show SHA1 > name_of_lost_file
one by one, every lost file will now be in your current work directory!
