Re: How to undo git-rm?

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Elijah Newren [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Neil Schemenauer [off-list ref] wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 >  This seemingly simple operation has me stumped.  I removed something
 >  from my try using "git rm" and now I want it back.  With SVN I would
 >  use "svn cat <path> > <path>".  After some searching around, I
 >  though git-cat-file would do the trick.  Alas, it appears as though
 >  it looks up the SHA for the path in the index and so it too fails.

 Try
  git checkout HEAD eg

doh, that should be
  git checkout HEAD <path>
of course.

 or
  git show HEAD:<path> > <path>