Restore a deleted file in Git

Find the commits that contain the file. Take note of the last commit that deleted the file:

git log --all --full-history --oneline -- <file-path>

• --all: Show commits in all branches, tags and refs.
• --full-history: Show full history of commits.
• --oneline: Pretty format because we only need the commit hash.

Restore the file by checking out the commit that happened before it was deleted:

git checkout <deleting-commit>^ -- <file-path>

The ^ means "parent of" - in the above example, it means checkout the parent commit of the deleting commit. This would contain the file and its content before it was deleted.