From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Raible Subject: Re: Help reverting a particular file Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:33:17 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <3f81a4240808111600u78c5eeefu588a6b1250a0dd02@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 12 01:34:36 2008 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 1KSguJ-0006J2-EO for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:34:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753583AbYHKXdd (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:33:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753550AbYHKXdd (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:33:33 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50835 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753483AbYHKXdd (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:33:33 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KSgtE-0003N7-Jn for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:33:28 +0000 Received: from 12.96.234.114 ([12.96.234.114]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:33:28 +0000 Received: from raible by 12.96.234.114 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:33:28 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 12.96.234.114 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Bryan Richardson gmail.com> writes: > > Hello all, > > Can anyone tell me how to revert a particular file using git? I > executed a commit, then froze my Rails application to the latest Rails > version. This caused my custom config/boot.rb file to be overwritten > and I would like to restore it without rolling back to the previous > commit (which would roll back the rails freeze). In general I need to > know how to do this anyway. :) > > Please help! > > -- > Thanks! > Bryan > See corresponding man page for full details, but briefly: # Updates index as well git checkout HEAD^ -- config/boot.rb or # Output can be redirected git show HEAD^:config/boot.rb - Eric