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Chapter: Tips and fixing mistakes
Lecture: Fixe: Lost .git folder?
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Let's close out the course. Talking about a few ways to solve minor problems or maybe bigger problems that you've run into.
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And the first one I want to talk about is oh no, I've lost the .git folder.
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Let's see what I mean. Let's just take our rock paper scissors project that we've been working on over here. We've got our RPS folder.
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And if you were to just come over here and say copy, go somewhere and then paste those details,
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you will have all the contents of the github repository as they are right now for
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whatever branch you've checked them out and whatever state you've gotten it into.
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But remember if you hit command shift dot on Mac Os or Windows and explorers to
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say show hidden files there are these other files that would not be copied and not moved around. So somehow you've lost access to these things.
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But you've made changes. Well what you could do is you could just go and check this out this project out again to another folder,
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copy everything. Overwrite it and it will automatically pick up all the changes. At least all the new files and modified files,
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I guess it wouldn't pick up the deleted files, you'd have to synchronize that a bit.
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But if something gets completely messed up then you can overwrite those files and keep going
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This also works. If you get the git hub repository into an absolute trashed state. You're like, I just even with Git commands,
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I cannot get it back into a state that works. It's so messed up. But I've made these changes. I need to keep well check out another folder,
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copy. Just the actual files, not the .git folder, stuff like that. Drop it over, open it up again and you'll have just the changes that you've
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made. Not like all the git history. You gotta be really careful there. I mean the commits you haven't pushed will get lost that way and so on.
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But it is sort of an escape patch if things get too out of control. But if you lose the git folder,
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you basically turn this structure that contains the files. You can still, you know,
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check it out again and override it and it will take on whatever changes that maybe we're still in those files that got separated from git.