> I would have expected that `git restore $commit $file` would copy the > content of said file from another revision only if your don’t have > uncommitted changes or to get an error. The positional arguments to "git restore" are files. So that command will error unless a file called $commit exists. (You shell's tab completion should guide you here.) You can use the --source option to specify the commit. > If it was really what I wanted to do, I would have expected to either do > `git restore $file && git restore $commit $file`, directly `git restore > --force $commit $file` or something similar. Is your question that you expect a command like git restore --source=some-commit some-file to error if you have uncommitted changes (to "some-file")? And instead you would run git restore some-file git restore --source=some-commit some-file
