Hi, What's the best way to revert individual files with git? To revert a whole tree, I can use "git reset --hard", but it refuses to do a partial reset. At the moment, I use either $ git diff file | patch -R -p1 or $ git show HEAD:file > file (followed by git-add file in both cases) I realize I can also do $ git reset HEAD file $ git checkout file But all of them sound rather ugly and unintuitive for something I consider to be a relatively common operation. Cogito had a cg-restore command which did roughy the "git-show ... > file" above. Either I missed something obvious (in which case, I'll be glad to add a FAQ about that), or git porcelain should include something to make it simpler to revert individual files. I'd rather avoid adding yet-another-command, but I think "git reset --hard" could be make to accept partial revert in case it reverts to the HEAD (I understand it cannot otherwise, since the whole tree has to point to the same HEAD). Does this sound OK to you? Any better suggestion? -- Matthieu - 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
