# How to recover from "reset --hard"

2 messages from 2009-08-22 to 2009-08-22. Participants: Ping Yin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20694

## Ping Yin, 2009-08-22 02:53

Subject: How to recover from "reset --hard"
Message-ID: <46dff0320908211953u2f63cdb4m9cab863266a03df7@mail.gmail.com>
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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 ?

Ping Yin

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## Ping Yin, 2009-08-22 06:06

Subject: Re: How to recover from "reset --hard"
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In-Reply-To: <46dff0320908211953u2f63cdb4m9cab863266a03df7@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Ping Yin<pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ?

It does. I just remembered the wrong size of the file. Sorry for the noise.

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