title: How to restore files that were removed by git?
body: <p>I am a git noob and git just deleted a bunch of important files. How do I get them back?</p>
  
  <p>I have a repo on my local machine. To get into git, I just right click my project folder and select "git bash here". This brings up the master where I do all my giting.</p>
  
  <p>So I had some changes to stage and I did:</p>
  
  <pre><code>git add .
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This staged a bunch of changes. I noticed that I didn't want some of these staged so I decided that I'd try to unstage everthing. I did this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>git reset --hard HEAD^
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This basically deleted a bunch of files that I had made on the last commit and jumped to the commit before.</p>
  
  <p>How do I get those files back? If I can't do it through git is there another way?</p>