Mac OS X restore files deleted by git rm

Question

i just messed up big. The way it happened is so emberassing that I won't write it down :)

So here's my problem:

• Github Repop deleted
• Local repo files delete by git rm -r
• Local repo new initalized

Is there any chance how to restore my data? Luckily it's in a very very early stage of this project.

Regards

Answer 1

git reset HEAD

If you don't have any uncommited changes you care about then use

git reset --hard HEAD

Answer 2

I am not sure I completely understand the state of your local repo, but if all you did was a git rm -r * and committed that, then everything is still there. You can just reset to the previous commit:

git reset --hard HEAD~1