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How to undo git-rm?

Subject: How to undo git-rm?

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5 messages between Mar 18, 2008 and Mar 20, 2008.

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Neil Schemenauer· Mar 18, 2008, 23:04 UTC · lore

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.

  Neil

Junio C Hamano· Mar 20, 2008, 00:24 UTC · re: Neil Schemenauer · lore

Re: How to undo git-rm?

Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com> writes:

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> 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"?

Jakub Narebski· Mar 20, 2008, 00:49 UTC · re: Neil Schemenauer · lore

Re: How to undo git-rm?

Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com> writes:

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> 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
ShadeHawk on #git

Elijah Newren· Mar 20, 2008, 02:53 UTC · re: Neil Schemenauer · lore

Re: How to undo git-rm?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com> wrote:

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> 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>

Elijah Newren· Mar 20, 2008, 02:54 UTC · re: Elijah Newren · lore

Re: How to undo git-rm?

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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

doh, that should be
  git checkout HEAD <path>
of course.

>  or
>   git show HEAD:<path> > <path>