From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:32:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Restoring files from old commits
Message-ID: <20070714143233.GC2544@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20070714123754.GA29622@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

martin f krafft, Sat, Jul 14, 2007 14:37:54 +0200:
> also sprach Nikodemus Siivola <nikodemus@random-state.net> [2007.07.14.1409 +0200]:
> > What is the recommended way to restore individual files
> > (or directories) in the working tree to the content they
> > had in a given commit?
> 
> As per my comment on IRC, I think
> 
>   git checkout <tree-ish> <path>
> 
> is the way.

It does not work for directories, though. On can use

    $ git ls-tree -r -z <tree-ish> -- <path> | git update-index -z --index-info
    $ git ls-tree -r --name-only -z <tree-ish> -- <path> | git checkout-index -f -z --stdin

for a more generic way to do this.

P.S. Martin, would you please stop removing people from address lists
and stop using that Mail-Followup-To? People miss their mails when
they are not addressed to them anymore and you doing exactly that.