From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:24:00 GMT
Subject: Re: How to undo git-rm?
Message-ID: <7v63vi1bvj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080318230441.GA664@arctrix.com>

Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com> writes:

> 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.

"git checkout HEAD -- that-path"?