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I accidentally deleted some files in a prior commit and would like to recover them. How can I do this?

I ran this and found exactly what I was looking for:

git whatchanged --diff-filter=D

At the time I made the commit, I should have committed the new/changed files only and ran a reset --hard then to recover the missing files. I have about 100 files that I need to restore.

I don't want to do a straight revert as that will also undo the changes in that commit.

Any ideas?

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what operating-system do you use? – wullxz Apr 20 '11 at 15:42
look over here. They found allready an answer to exact the same question. – wullxz Apr 20 '11 at 15:45
Perfect, I found something that will work for me. I wrote a nice tiny script to put together a list of files and then checkout those files. – Walter White Apr 20 '11 at 18:03
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