How do I recover a deleted fork in GitHub?

Question

I made a PR on a repository, deleted my fork and I can't access my PR branch anymore. It says unknown repository at the top now.

How do I get back to a PR branch in a deleted fork?

I tried to make a new fork, clone it and do git checkout nameofbranchfrompullrequest, but all the changes disappeared.

Answer 1

If I understood correctly:

1. you forked a repo on GitHub
2. you made some changes in the fork
3. you submitted a PR to the original repo from your fork
4. you deleted the fork
5. now you want to recover the changes you made on the GitHub fork

Once you delete a repo from GitHub you have to email [email protected] as soon as possible when this happens unless you have your forked repo still cloned somewhere on your computer.