Re: Revert a single commit in a single file

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 25, 2011, 11:17 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimLRc4LybUvmD2ZCKfQqEP+vr+2aBnb4n3B+Mb2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikpdGfAAUMu_7DfA-GRUv7gKn5Yc9RnJwo2iKoM@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:34, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I tried asking the same question on the "newbie" list some time ago:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/git-users/browse_thread/thread/d562b4eeac016711
>
> Basically, when I go
>> git revert <commit> <path>
>
> .. my expectation was that a new commit would be made reverting the
> changes from the old commit, but only for specified path/file.
>
> Maybe it's a bit of a corner-case, but still would be nice to have
> once in a while. What do you think?

It would. What you can do in the meantime is:

    git revert <commit>
    git reset
    git add <path>
    git commit ...
    git reset --hard # making sure you didn't have uncommited changes earlier