Dario Rodriguez venit, vidit, dixit 25.02.2011 13:48: > The most sensible way to do this seems to be: To do what? I you hadn't top posted we would know what "this" referred to. > git checkout HEAD~2 file.c > > And your index will show file.c modified, as it will have it's content > reverted 2 commits. It will have its content reset to what it was in HEAD~2. This is very different from reverting the change made in HEAD~2: > The behavior of 'revert' is to revert commits, not files, so it's not > expected to work if you say 'git revert <commit> <path>' It makes perfect sense, it's just not implemented. Note that you can also git show <commit> -- <path> | git apply -R to achieve a partial revert. That might be the easiest route to take. Michael [Cutting the bottom copy - what is it good for there?] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html