title: Restore deleted directory that was never committed
body: <p>I accidentally added a local directory to my local Git repo.</p>
  
  <pre><code>git add dirName
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It added the twenty or so files in that directory.  I did not want them added.  They had never been added before, and I did not commit them.  Instead, I removed them with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>git rm -rf dirName
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This successfully removed them from the repo, but to my dismay that directory also appears to have been deleted from disk.  They are not in my recycle bin.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to get those files back?  I have a backup, of course, but I had made quite a few changes to the files since the last backup.</p>