Re: Moving a file back to an earlier revision.

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Apr 1, 2006, 23:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20060401230144.GL27689@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <4dd15d180603311332p60fa1867nc303bd92d515b4e0@mail.gmail.com>

Dear diary, on Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:32:16PM CEST, I got a letter where David Ho <davidkwho@gmail.com> said that...

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> Sorry I might already have found it.
> 
> File revisions
> 
> +----+----+
> 1    2    3
> 
> git diff commit(3)..commit(1) filename | git-apply

Note that it might be more convenient to just say "restore the file to the contents as of commit X" - in pure Git this would involve dances with git-ls-tree and git-cat-file, I'm not sure if the core Git porcelain has an interface for doing this easily.

In Cogito, you can just do:

	cg-restore -f -r commitid filename

-- 
				Petr "Pasky on a dialup" Baudis
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Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think
I have forgotten this before.