How to undo "Discard" if not committed

Question

I accidentally clicked Discard while committing my changes. So I discarded the whole file but I wanted to discard only some hunk. But I haven't clicked on Commit, I did Cancel.

But now I cannot see my code in my file.

What can I do to undo the damn discard ?

Thanks in advance

Solution 1

I know the post is too old but I faced the similar situation and accidentally clicked "Discard" in SourceTree and lost my changes.

Luckily I had the IDE opened, i.e. PHPStorm, at the time. Though it had already refreshed the file I was working on and loaded the old copy after Discard, however, I did "undo" on the working file in editor and it loaded back my changes.

I saved the file and got my lost changes back.

Just wanted to share in case others face the similar situation as mine and want to recover their changes with little presence of mind :D

Solution 2

For me I'm using mac when I discard file and I want to get back

I open that file and open with TextEditor.app

on the top bar click File -> Revert To -> Browse All Version...

Select on last save version that you want hope it can save your time.

Solution 3

Open this file in IDE and Press Command + Z

Solution 4

In Eclipse,

• Right-click the discarded file from Package explorer
• Click 'Replace with'
• Click 'Local History'
• Compare dialog open with list of revisions
• Select your revision and click 'Replace'.

Solution 5

I don't believe you can do anything. If you didn't commit the changes at any points, there is no way to get them back after you discard them.

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Comments

[Asherah]

Note there's a small exception here: if the changes got added to the index, but not committed, they are still recoverable. (See answers.)

[Deirdra Strangio]

I tried this but TextEditor said I had no previous versions O_O

[Chea Sambath]

Because you did not save it before

[Renatas M.]

Thanks! Same thing applies to IntelliJ. Accept when you get "undo reset from file?" question when you hit Ctrl+z.

[Chammi Weerasekera]

Thanks for saving my day! Works for eclipse as well.

[Tiago Mendes]

Did work great for Swift file and Xcode...thank you :D