Question

GIT help!! I was switching between branches.. something happened and a lot of files in master branch got deleted/modified. i haven't add/committed/pushed anything to the remote git repo. this is still in the local. how do i undo all the deletions?

Answer 1

Assuming the, "deletion" was of stuff existed on the remote, and not non-commited work, just git rebase <upstream>/<branch>. Example: git rebase upstream/master

Answer 2

What is the output of `git status`.

Answer 3

several deleted/modified files. git was asking if i wanted to add, commit and stuff. i managed to fix it by doing "git checkout ."

Answer 4

but it was still odd. i was in the master branch. i wanted to jump into another branch, where i haven't gone in awhile, so it has very few files compared to master. all of a sudden, i couldn't move to the other branch. i was in the master branch but git status tells me every file i didn't possess in that other branch was deleted on the master branch and other modified files. weird

Answer 5

`git checkout .` would reset the current branch you are on to a pure state. (i.e. the ^HEAD)

What it sounds like you did was essentially enter a detached state.

Cheers on fixing your git issue, most of the time they are not that essay to fix.