Recover lost files after added and doing git reset --hard

Question

How to recover files after adding and doing git reset --hard?

Here are some points that must consider before answer:

• Raw .git directory
• No initial commit
• .git directory has size of 67.3 MBs

Sequence of git commands that cause damage

1. git add .
2. git reset --hard

Kindly help me out to recover my project source code files.

Answer 1

if you have your .git folder go to your project dir in which .git folder lies. use this

git fsck --lost-found

it will generate a folder in .git directory lost-found you can see a blob there,it hasn't named files but you can see your code in these files.