Git undo local branch delete
If you know the last SHA1 of the branch, you can try
git branch branchName <SHA1>
You can find the SHA1 using git reflog
, described in the solution --defect link--.
You can use git reflog to find the SHA1 of the last commit of the branch. From that point, you can recreate a branch using
git branch branchName <sha1>
Edit: As @seagullJS says, the branch -D
command tells you the sha1, so if you haven't closed the terminal yet it becomes real easy. For example this deletes and then immediately restores a branch named master2
:
user@MY-PC /C/MyRepo (master)
$ git branch -D master2
Deleted branch master2 (was 130d7ba). <-- This is the SHA1 we need to restore it!
user@MY-PC /C/MyRepo (master)
$ git branch master2 130d7ba
If you just deleted the branch, you will see something like this in your terminal:
Deleted branch branch_name(was e562d13)
- where e562d13 is a unique ID (a.k.a. the "SHA" or "hash"), with this you can restore the deleted branch.
To restore the branch, use:
git checkout -b <branch_name> <sha>
for example:
git checkout -b branch_name e562d13
If you haven't push the deletion yet, you can simply do :
$ git checkout deletedBranchName