From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:49:46 GMT
Subject: Re: How to undo git-rm?
Message-ID: <m31w66w76k.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20080318230441.GA664@arctrix.com>

Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com> writes:

> 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.

Direct equivalent would be

  $ git show HEAD:<path> > <path>   # from last commit
  $ git show :<path>     > <path>   # from index

but actually you would probably use

  $ git checkout -- <path>

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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