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 20:54:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51419b2c0803191954q1811c351jc65ff1ac541f07a2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51419b2c0803191953y7842ddf8l7a6de37226cb12e2@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
doh, that should be
git checkout HEAD <path>
of course.
> or
> git show HEAD:<path> > <path>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-20 2:55 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
2008-03-20 2:54 ` Elijah Newren [this message]
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