Re: Help reverting a particular file

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 12, 2008, 06:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20080812061538.GA3824@blimp.local>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20080811T232642-623@post.gmane.org>

Eric Raible, Tue, Aug 12, 2008 01:33:17 +0200:

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> Bryan Richardson <btricha <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me how to revert a particular file using git?  I
> > executed a commit, then froze my Rails application to the latest Rails
> > version.  This caused my custom config/boot.rb file to be overwritten
> > and I would like to restore it without rolling back to the previous
> > commit (which would roll back the rails freeze).  In general I need to
> > know how to do this anyway. :)
> > 
> 
> See corresponding man page for full details, but briefly:
> 
> # Updates index as well
> git checkout HEAD^ -- config/boot.rb
>

That'd revert it to the _previous_ commit, not the current, while he seems to need the recently committed state in his working tree:

  git checkout HEAD -- config/boot.rb