Check out and lost local files

[Kumanan]

There are many files that were in local. During initial development of some modules

many files were added  and lots of changes were done in a branch called cycle4

In the sourcetree develop branch is accidentally checked out

we lost all the new files and 6 days of change

Please help us resolve

[Ana Retamal]

Hi Kumanan! First of all, let me clarify that what you described does not look like a Sourcetree question, but like a Git question.

By default, Git should not overwrite local changes when you do a checkout. Did you use --force by any chance?

Did you added them before? If they were not added (which means git knows nothing about those files), then I'm afraid they're lost/

If you did git add previously, it will be possible to recover them but it will involve quite a lot of work. You can read more about it in the first answer of this post here.

Hope that helps!

Ana