I’ve had juniors who didn’t believe this, so just to say it: If you know what you’re doing, practically any Git problem is recoverable.

The one major exception is if you delete your local changes before committing them.

Does deleting the repo off disk and redownloading from remote considered recovering? If so I’m a git expert.

Delete? Never.

mv git_repo git_repo.bad
I do this sometimes but then I forget about it and then node_modules in each repo fills my SSD.
I mostly only use git at work and I guess I’ve never had the same work machine long enough to worry about this. It helps that each of our repos is fairly small. At least the ones I touch.