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From: "Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>
To: "Neil Schemenauer" <nas@arctrix.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to undo git-rm?
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:53:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51419b2c0803191953y7842ddf8l7a6de37226cb12e2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080318230441.GA664@arctrix.com>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-20  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-18 23:04 How to undo git-rm? Neil Schemenauer
2008-03-20  0:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-20  0:49 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-03-20  2:53 ` Elijah Newren [this message]
2008-03-20  2:54   ` Elijah Newren

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