Re: Help reverting a particular file

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Raible, Tue, Aug 12, 2008 01:33:17 +0200:
> Bryan Richardson <btricha <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > 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. :)
> > 
> 
> See corresponding man page for full details, but briefly:
> 
> # Updates index as well
> git checkout HEAD^ -- config/boot.rb
> 

That'd revert it to the _previous_ commit, not the current, while he
seems to need the recently committed state in his working tree:

  git checkout HEAD -- config/boot.rb


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