How do I undelete a file after deleting git repository and pushing to github? about questionnaire HOT 5 OPEN

@aculich Oh I see, I thought Alex's question was getting back the file he already pushed to github...

In that case, I think git checkout would work?

Edit: a relevant StackOverflow question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3150394/how-to-undelete-a-file-previously-deleted-in-gits-history. git checkout <commit> <filename> is what the top answer says. To get a list of commits, I suppose we can do git log?

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Since you already push it to github, just clone it back to your local VM :D git clone https://github.com/YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME/questionaire.git

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@kqdtran The answer is a little more complicated than that... it is a file that was deleted both locally AND the deletion was pushed to github... so it's not just a matter of simply pulling from github to recover the deleted file.

@alexchao56 Did you ever get an answer to your question on stackoverflow? Can you post a link to your SO question here so we can all see if an answer shows up?

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This is the SO post that I put up. It seems that a solution is to checkout the file in question and then recommit it again.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19215393/how-do-i-undelete-a-file-after-git-rm-and-pushing-to-github

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