Am 03.12.2016 um 06:04 schrieb Julian de Bhal:
If you `git add new_file; git reset --hard`, new_file is gone forever.
AFAIC, this is a feature ;-) I occasionally use it to remove a file when
I already have git-gui in front of me. Then it's often less convenient
to type the path in a shell, or to pointy-click around in a file browser.
git add new_file
Because of this ...
git add -p # also not necessary, but distracting
git reset --hard # decided copy from backed up diff
# boom. new_file is gone forever
... it is not. The file is still among the dangling blobs in the
repository until you clean it up with 'git gc'. Use 'git fsck --lost-found':
--lost-found
Write dangling objects into .git/lost-found/commit/ or
.git/lost-found/other/, depending on type. If the object is a blob, the
contents are written into the file, rather than its object name.
-- Hannes