Re: Simple problem

From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 28, 2008, 16:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20080428164945.GA14445@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <18453.64747.540905.586259@lisa.zopyra.com>

On 2008.04.28 11:35:55 -0500, Bill Lear wrote:

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> On Monday, April 28, 2008 at 16:31:05 (+0000) Kenneth P. Turvey writes:
> >I ran into an issue earlier today that I didn't know how to easily solve 
> >in git.  I'm sure it is easy to handle, but I wasn't sure how.  
> >
> >I removed a file and then realized I'd hit the wrong one.  So all I 
> >wanted to do was to get the file back the way it was in the last commit.  
> >
> >Basically I wanted something similar to:
> >
> >svn update myfile
> >
> >in subversion.  
> >
> >I got it back by using a diff and just deleting all the minus signs at 
> >the beginning of the lines, but I'm sure this isn't the way to handle 
> >this.  Strangely this simple case wasn't covered by any of the tutorials 
> >I looked at. 
> 
> % rm file
> [oops]
> % git checkout file

That restores the version from the index, so it will fail if you did "git rm file". To get the file from HEAD use "git checkout HEAD -- file".

Björn