Re: Revert a single commit in a single file

[Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason venit, vidit, dixit 25.02.2011 12:17:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:34, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
> <tfnico@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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>

Ævar meant to write "git revert --no-commit <commit>" here. (Or there
wouldn't be anything to reset and add.)

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

If you want to revert changes to all files but a few, you can do it the
other way round (revert, checkout HEAD^ -- <path>, commit --amend).

Cheers,
Michael