How I recovered a deleted repository from GitHub, Read on for the step-by-step instructions to restore your precious repo So I took them up on their offer, and was given a more detailed analysis of how the teachtaughtotectoratethe restoration process as described, with special emphasis put in place understanding that asked some basic questions and explained limitations.
Deleted Repos The evacmd provides a restoredelete command to undelete previously removed repositories.
Recover a repo To start, you just have to enter your GitHub profile. Select Your organizations or Settings if the repository is personal, then click on your profile photo in the upper-right corner.
For Personal Repositories:
Go to Settings.
Go to Repositories in the sidebar.
Click on Deleted repositories listed under “Repositories.”
Configuring GPG signing of artifacts for organizational Repos →
Organization Profile Menu >
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(your organization)
You will see the Settings button for that Organisation.
Once again, Go to Deleted repositories.
Restoration Steps
If you found the deleted repository, do this.
Then, you can click on the Restore button of a repository to restore it from GitLab backup.
Or a warning message shoudl appear, read that carefully
Click I understand, restore this repository to confirm your action.
This enables you to recover repositories deleted in the last 90 days. If the repository was part of a fork network, there are more conditions that need to be satisfied for it to restore successfully245.
Limitations, Assumptions
Time Frame: Only within 90 days of deletion, you can restore the Repos. At the end of this period they are deleted from Github’s servers permanently.
Fork Networks: The deleted repository cannot be restored until all other forks are also .
Restore of Data – Main content from the repository can be restored, and this does not include release attachments, team permissions etc.
In the end, recovering a deleted repository on GitHub is doable for most use-cases and not that difficult if you follow these steps and take into consideration time limits of recovery, forks network.