A simple script to automate the file recovering from git history, if you need to do that(in case). The following script print git command to recover all static files in any html template.

recover_from_git.py

import os
import re
import sys
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE


ROOT_FILES_PATH = '/home/<username>/path/to/your/file'

# REgex
STATIC_REGEX = re.compile(r'mobile/(.*?)(\.css|\.js|\.svg|\.less|\.png|\.jpg|\.woff|\.ttf|\.eot|\.txt|\.scss)')

def recover_static(file_path):
    """
    Recover Static files in given file from git history, which are deleted.
    """
    with open(file_path, 'r') as f:
        contents = f.read()
        to_urls_iter = re.finditer(STATIC_REGEX, contents)
        to_urls = [urls.group() for urls in to_urls_iter]
        
        print("Found urls: ")
        print(to_urls)
        print()
        # get log and commit_id of deleted files
        print("Run following git commands to recover files:")
        for url in to_urls:
            git_command = ['/usr/bin/git', 'rev-list', '-n', '1', 'HEAD', '--']
            static_url = 'static/' + url
            git_command.extend([static_url])
            repository  = os.path.dirname('/home/<username>/path/to/project/root/dir/') 

            git_query = Popen(git_command, cwd=repository, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)

            for line in git_query.stdout:
                final_command = f'git checkout {line.decode().strip()}^ -- {static_url}'
                print(final_command)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) <= 1:
        print("Please give filename as command line argument..")
    else:
        filename = sys.argv[1]
        file_path = os.path.join(ROOT_FILES_PATH, filename)
        print(f'Recovering starts for : {file_path}...')
        recover_static(file_path)

        print('\nDone!')





# Tasks:
# 1. We want to take full path of file at cmd argument  -- [Done]
# 2. Read the file                      -- [Done]
# 3. Find full path of static files     -- [Regex]  -- [Done] 
# 4. Run git commands to get commit_id of each file. [Use subprocess] [Done]
# 5. Print command to recover the static files. [Done]
# 6. subprocess for running commands. [Done]