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From: "Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to undo git-rm?
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:54:40 -0600
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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>