From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 15:33:07 GMT
Subject: Re: reverting a file or files back to repository copy
Message-ID: <200905021733.08557.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <eaa105840905020825v561f610dj99b1b00581bf1b3d@mail.gmail.com>

Peter Harris, 02.05.2009:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Aaron Gray wrote:
> > How do I do the eqivalent of an 'svn revert' on a single file, on a
> > directory of files, or on all files ?
> 
> git checkout <files>

This will use the state of the files from the index.
To revert to the latest commit, i.e. discard all your local changes of
particular files, use

    git checkout HEAD -- <files>

Markus