GitHub undo a discard

Question

I was working on some files and accidentally discarded all the files from github. I know that as soon as you discard there is an undo button at the bottom. But I restarted my gitub and now I do not have the undo button anymore. Is there any way I can undo my discard and get back my files? I hope there is, pls let me know if you have any ideas.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The discard (that you can see in "Undo Button in GitHub for Windows") is available to reset files added to the index.

That means you added files, and reset them before any commit.

The GitHub for Windows/Mac won't help you there.

You need to recover those files from the git repo (git fsck --unreachable --no-reflogs --no-cache HEAD).
See "Recovering added file after doing git reset --hard HEAD^" for more.

The OP Benz_java mentions "restoring lost commits", for looking in the reflog for lost commit.