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From: "Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to undo git-rm?
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:53:34 -0600
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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
or
  git show HEAD:<path> > <path>