Undo working copy modifications of one file in Git?
You can use
git checkout -- fileYou can do it without the -- (as suggested by nimrodm), but if the filename looks like a branch or tag (or other revision identifier), it may get confused, so using -- is best.
You can also check out a particular version of a file:
git checkout v1.2.3 -- file # tag v1.2.3git checkout stable -- file # stable branchgit checkout origin/master -- file # upstream mastergit checkout HEAD -- file # the version from the most recent commitgit checkout HEAD^ -- file # the version before the most recent commit
Just use
git checkout filenameThis will replace filename with the latest version from the current branch.
WARNING: your changes will be discarded — no backup is kept.
git checkout <commit> <filename>I used this today because I realized that my favicon had been overwritten a few commits ago when I upgrated to drupal 6.10, so I had to get it back. Here is what I did:
git checkout 088ecd favicon.ico