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Recover staged but not committed files after ‘git rm -rf’

(update) Use git fsck instead, it is a builtin command for retrieving files you have once added to git repository. git fsck –lost-found –unreachable after the command processing, retrieved files will be placed at .git/lost-found/other, with file name of a sha256 hash. Although the original name is still lost, the content will be back. You … Read more

What is a dangling commit and a blob in a Git repository and where do they come from?

During the course of working with your Git repository, you may end up backing out of operations, and making other moves that cause intermediary blobs, and even some things that Git does for you to help avoid loss of information. Eventually (conditionally, according to the git gc man page) it will perform garbage collection and … Read more