From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kenneth P. Turvey" Subject: Simple problem Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 28 18:32:58 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JqWGq-0003Z3-VR for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:32:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934848AbYD1QbQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:31:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934101AbYD1QbQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:31:16 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57891 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934566AbYD1QbP (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:31:15 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JqWG1-0002T3-2n for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:31:13 +0000 Received: from pool-71-161-56-12.clppva.east.verizon.net ([71.161.56.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:31:13 +0000 Received: from kt-usenet by pool-71-161-56-12.clppva.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:31:13 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-71-161-56-12.clppva.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Pan/0.129 (Benson & Hedges Moscow Gold) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I ran into an issue earlier today that I didn't know how to easily solve in git. I'm sure it is easy to handle, but I wasn't sure how. I removed a file and then realized I'd hit the wrong one. So all I wanted to do was to get the file back the way it was in the last commit. Basically I wanted something similar to: svn update myfile in subversion. I got it back by using a diff and just deleting all the minus signs at the beginning of the lines, but I'm sure this isn't the way to handle this. Strangely this simple case wasn't covered by any of the tutorials I looked at. Thanks. -- Kenneth P. Turvey