Recently, while trying to rename my master branch to my main branch on my remote github repo, I mistakenly followed a tutorial. I didn’t read the tutorial thoroughly, and ended up deleting the master branch entirely, without any of the changes ending up on the main branch on the remote.

The commands I ran were the following:

        git branch -m master main //renames

        git fetch -p origin
        git branch -u origin/master main 

        git remote set-head origin -a 

        git branch -D master
        git push origin :master 

Is there any way to undo the last command to delete the remote branch. Unfortunately, I can’t see any evidence of the master branch from github? I can only see that the master branch has been deleted in the git command line. I have changes on the remote branch where I directly edited the README file, but I never edited the README locally, so I can’t restore it locally I think. Is there any way I can restore the branch remotely through Github?

I tried running git checkout -b master origin/master to get back any remainings of the origin/master branch, but it seemed to not work. I also tried git reflog to see if I can identify any README commits, but unfortunately I can only see commits related to my local changes.

Unfortunately, I made README changes on the remote without doing it on local for the easier UI experience on Github. I can restore the local changes, but I spent quite a bit on the README, so I would love if I could restore that as well.