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gerardo barroso
42,674 PointsHow to get a local repository back using git
hey I'm curious to know, if i can get a copy of my local folder(project) using git, even if i deleted my folder accidentally from my desktop and haven't pushed my commits to github so I would not be able to clone the repo, but I committed locally.
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miguelcastro2
Courses Plus Student 6,573 PointsYou can't.
If you have a local Git repo and you delete the project folder containing the Git repo and you never pushed the contents of the repo to a remote location such as GitHub, then you cannot recover it. You have to imagine it this way, if you have a directory called "Projects" and that directory is under Git version control, all Git related information regarding that directory is stored inside "Projects" in a .git directory. If you do not synchronize your local "Projects" folder with a remote repository then once you delete the "Projects" folder all information is lost. There is no other place the local Git repository stores information.