I had a lot of local changes.
I just accidentally did
git merge another_branch
git reset --hard HEAD^
on a lot of work. :( with the intention I didn't want the merged changes in here.
How do I recover the original state?
No, the local changes were never committed/stashed.
No way?
Try undoing on the file directly from the IDE. You'll get what you need.
It is probably not helpful for @Lakshman Prasad, but it will help someone else :-D
I was able to recover my files, by using git log -g.
My changes were there, because I committed them once, uncommitted my changes and then I saw all files on which I was working were lost.
By doing git log -g || git reflog -g it will display the recent commit logs.
I found my commit hash and I checked it out to that using this command: git reset #commitHashID
This may help someone with a similar scenario.