How to undo local changes to a specific file

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I m trying to undo local changes to a specific file  Nothing has been committed   When I want to revert all changes  I can perform git revert --reset HEAD  However  in this case  I don t want to revert all changes to all files   Its not clear or obvious to me how to revert just a file  even after reading the git-revert 3  man page   NAME        git-revert - Revert some existing commits  SYNOPSIS        git revert  -- no- edit   -n   -m parent-number   -s   lt commit gt            git revert --continue        git revert --quit        git revert --abort       This is similar to How to revert a specific file in a old commit on git  but no commits have been performed  And unlike OP  who wants to go back to an arbitrary commit  I just want the file to return to MASTER s copy of it   Under SVN  I would just delete the file in question and then perform a svn update   How do I revert changes to a single file

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You don t want git revert  That undoes a previous commit  You want git checkout to get git s version of the file from master   git checkout -- filename txt  In general  when you want to perform a git operation on a single file  use -- filename      git-checkout Documentation git-revert Documentation     2020 Update  Git introduced a new command git restore in version 2 23 0  Therefore  if you have git version 2 23 0   you can simply git restore filename txt - which does the same thing as git checkout -- filename txt  The docs for this command do note that it is currently experimental    git-restore Documentation

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