Rescue your ever lost commits

Recovers your staged file (index) after a hard reset: $ git reset HEAD --hard && git recover-index

Oh no!

Did you lose all your work after stupid git reset XXX --hard. Don't worry, we got you covered.

Quick usage

$ cd /path/to/messedup/repo
$ git clone git@github.com:pendashteh/git-recover-index.git
$ ./git-recover-index
> 1 lost commit found. Processing...
> Done.
> Find recovered commits at /path/to/messedup/GIT_RECOVERED

Now you can check out your files under ./GIT_RECOVERED. Please note that this process does not recover the file names, so yeah. Good luck!

Installation

If for whataver reason, you want to have this script installed as a git extension, you only need to add the executable git-receover-index to a directory that belongs to $PATH, e.g. $HOME/bin.

Then you'd be able to use this as a git extention:

$ git recover-index