Re: Restoring files from old commits

martin f krafft, Sat, Jul 14, 2007 14:37:54 +0200:

also sprach Nikodemus Siivola [off-list ref] [2007.07.14.1409 +0200]:

quoted

What is the recommended way to restore individual files
(or directories) in the working tree to the content they
had in a given commit?

As per my comment on IRC, I think

  git checkout <tree-ish> <path>

is the way.

It does not work for directories, though. On can use

    $ git ls-tree -r -z <tree-ish> -- <path> | git update-index -z --index-info
    $ git ls-tree -r --name-only -z <tree-ish> -- <path> | git checkout-index -f -z --stdin

for a more generic way to do this.

P.S. Martin, would you please stop removing people from address lists
and stop using that Mail-Followup-To? People miss their mails when
they are not addressed to them anymore and you doing exactly that.