From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:51:31 GMT
Subject: Re: How-to revert a locally modified file
Message-ID: <7v4psgduzg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <456FBC63.5090609@saville.com>

Wink Saville <wink@saville.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I searched the net and couldn't find the answer to how to revert a
> file to its "pre-modified" state.
>
> I did see in the 0.99.7 To Do:

Where did you find 0.99.7 ToDo?  I am curious...

> * Perhaps a tool to revert a single file to pre-modification
> state? git-cat-file blob `git-ls-files | grep foo` >foo or
> git-cat-file blob `git-ls-tree HEAD foo` >foo? What should
> the command be called? git-revert is taken so is
> git-checkout.
>
> Did such a command come to be?

commit 4aaa702794447d9b281dd22fe532fd61e02434e1
Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date:   Tue Oct 18 01:29:27 2005 -0700

    git-checkout: revert specific paths to either index or a given tree-ish.
    
    When extra paths arguments are given, git-checkout reverts only those
    paths to either the version recorded in the index or the version
    recorded in the given tree-ish.
    
    This has been on the TODO list for quite a while.
    
    Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

See the EXAMPLES section of git-checkout manual page.