OT: git question -- fetch a deleted file?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I manually deleted some files in a sub directory in my xserver checkout.

I tried to do a "git pull" and a "git fetch" but the files never returned.

I am used to being able to do a "cvs up -dPA" and being able to retrieve 
files I removed.

Any suggestions on how to do this with git?

I looked at the git-pull and git-fetch manual pages.

Thanks.