How to restore a project from .git?

Question

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Accidentally in VS Code I clicked the GIT "clear all" tab, as a result I got an empty folder, in which only the hidden .git directory (16-20mb) remained. Is there any way to restore the project?

Answer 1

git reflog
then git checkout the desired commit

Answer 2

To get started, look in the basket, maybe you're lucky and you can restore everything with "one click".
If you're not lucky, you can only restore the contents of the files using:
All files will be in .git/lost-found/other/
The only thing is that you will have to somehow restore the directory tree and file names manually , because not a single tree was restored from git objects .

Answer 3

git clone
Or if you need to restore from a specific commit, then look at git log and do git checkout your_commit by the commit ID. I did this in the terminal, but I can’t tell you how to do it in VS Code.