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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:24:00 -0700
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Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com> writes:

> 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.

"git checkout HEAD -- that-path"?