Accidently pushed local only files¶

Let's say you have some local files that in a repo that are not meant to be pushed to a remote, but, accidently, have been.

Let's say the sha of the commit is ACCIDENTAL_COMMIT_SHA, and the branch of this commit is FEATURE_BRANCH.

To retrieve the local only files, and keep them in an untracked status:

Revert the commit, or bring the remote to the intended state via any method (ie, the only difference between the branch and the faulty commit is the local only files)
Check out to another branch locally
Run git diff to see the files that that are different in the branch and the accidental commit
```
git diff --name-only ACCIDENTAL_COMMIT_SHA origin/FEATURE_BRANCH
```

Checkout those files into the current branch.

git checkout ACCIDENTAL_COMMIT_SHA \
$(git diff --name-only ACCIDENTAL_COMMIT_SHA origin/FEATURE_BRANCH | xargs)

Breathe a sigh of relief!