A simple scrpit to automate the file recovering from git history, if you need to do that(in case).

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]