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How to recover from "reset --hard"

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Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 22, 2009, 02:53 UTC
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After adding a file to index, i do a "reset --hard", then how do i recovery the file?

I want write all lost files to a directory and find it according to the file size.

Does "git fsck --lost-found" write this file to .git\lost-found\other ?
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