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How to retrieve deleted files from previous git commit
#Use git log --diff-filter=D --summary to get all the commits which have deleted files and the files deleted;
#Use git checkout $commit~1 filename to restore the deleted file.
Where $commit is the value of the commit you've found at step 1, e.g. e4cf499627
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