Re: Revert a single commit in a single file

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

Dario Rodriguez venit, vidit, dixit 25.02.2011 13:48:
> The most sensible way to do this seems to be:

To do what? I you hadn't top posted we would know what "this" referred to.

>  git checkout HEAD~2 file.c
> 
> And your index will show file.c modified, as it will have it's content
> reverted 2 commits.

It will have its content reset to what it was in HEAD~2. This is very
different from reverting the change made in HEAD~2:

> The behavior of 'revert' is to revert commits, not files, so it's not
> expected to work if you say 'git revert <commit> <path>'

It makes perfect sense, it's just not implemented.

Note that you can also

git show <commit> -- <path> | git apply -R

to achieve a partial revert. That might be the easiest route to take.

Michael

[Cutting the bottom copy - what is it good for there?]