From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:53:34 GMT
Subject: Re: How to undo git-rm?
Message-ID: <51419b2c0803191953y7842ddf8l7a6de37226cb12e2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080318230441.GA664@arctrix.com>

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  This seemingly simple operation has me stumped.  I removed something
>  from my try using "git rm" and now I want it back.  With SVN I would
>  use "svn cat <path> > <path>".  After some searching around, I
>  though git-cat-file would do the trick.  Alas, it appears as though
>  it looks up the SHA for the path in the index and so it too fails.

Try
  git checkout HEAD eg
or
  git show HEAD:<path> > <path>