I assume my files are gone but I'll try to ask anyway.

I started versioning a directory that had nested another directory with local git repo in it(which I made by mistake some time ago). I pushed the changes to GitLab but couldn't see the content of the nested directory there and it had a suffix @ 819bd776 in the name. Afterward, I accidentally removed the nested directory by git rm dir/ -f ...

Then I tried to restore it by git restore --staged dir and then git restore dir... The directory has been restored but with no content in it. Is there any way to save the contents of that directory?

CodePudding user response：

Sadly not, git only saves what revision is checked out. The code after the @ is the hash of the checked out commit.

The only way to restore it, would be by using some kind of data recovery tool, or if the submodule/sub-repo was hosted somewhere else.