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From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Subject: Re: Simple problem
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:35:55 -0500
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On Monday, April 28, 2008 at 16:31:05 (+0000) Kenneth P. Turvey writes:
>I ran into an issue earlier today that I didn't know how to easily solve 
>in git.  I'm sure it is easy to handle, but I wasn't sure how.  
>
>I removed a file and then realized I'd hit the wrong one.  So all I 
>wanted to do was to get the file back the way it was in the last commit.  
>
>Basically I wanted something similar to:
>
>svn update myfile
>
>in subversion.  
>
>I got it back by using a diff and just deleting all the minus signs at 
>the beginning of the lines, but I'm sure this isn't the way to handle 
>this.  Strangely this simple case wasn't covered by any of the tutorials 
>I looked at. 

% rm file
[oops]
% git checkout file


Bill