Git - Getting the file back from a commit
git show HEAD~4:file.html > oldFile.html
Written by Ashish Kumar Singh
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git distinguishes references from file paths via --. The following plucks the file from 4 commits back and stages it.
git checkout HEAD~4 -- file.html
over 1 year ago
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So this should also effectively bring back a deleted file?
I use git show HEAD~4 when there is a need to see and recover some of the over-written changes.
over 1 year ago
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