Undo working copy modifications of one file in Git

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After the last commit  I modified a bunch of files in my working copy  but I want to undo the changes to one of those files  as in reset it to the same state as the most recent commit   However  I only want to undo the working copy changes of just that one file alone  nothing else with it   How do I do that

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git checkout  lt commit gt   lt filename gt    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

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You can use  git checkout -- file   You 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 3 git checkout stable -- file           stable branch git checkout origin master -- file    upstream master git checkout HEAD -- file             the version from the most recent commit git checkout HEAD  -- file            the version before the most recent commit

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I always get confused with this  so here is a reminder test case  let s say we have this bash script to test git   set -x rm -rf test mkdir test cd test git init git config user name test git config user email test test com echo 1  gt  a txt echo 1  gt  b txt git add   git commit -m  initial commit  echo 2  gt  gt  b txt git add b txt git commit -m  second commit  echo 3  gt  gt  b txt     At this point  the change is not staged in the cache  so git status is     git status On branch master Changes not staged for commit     use  git add  lt file gt      to update what will be committed     use  git checkout --  lt file gt      to discard changes in working directory       modified    b txt  no changes added to commit  use  git add  and or  git commit -a     If from this point  we do git checkout  the result is this     git checkout HEAD -- b txt   git status On branch master nothing to commit  working directory clean   If instead we do git reset  the result is     git reset HEAD -- b txt Unstaged changes after reset  M   b txt   git status On branch master Changes not staged for commit     use  git add  lt file gt      to update what will be committed     use  git checkout --  lt file gt      to discard changes in working directory       modified    b txt  no changes added to commit  use  git add  and or  git commit -a     So  in this case - if the changes are not staged  git reset makes no difference  while git checkout overwrites the changes     Now  let s say that the last change from the script above is staged cached  that is to say we also did git add b txt at the end   In this case  git status at this point is     git status On branch master Changes to be committed     use  git reset HEAD  lt file gt      to unstage       modified    b txt   If from this point  we do git checkout  the result is this     git checkout HEAD -- b txt   git status On branch master nothing to commit  working directory clean   If instead we do git reset  the result is     git reset HEAD -- b txt Unstaged changes after reset  M   b txt   git status On branch master Changes not staged for commit     use  git add  lt file gt      to update what will be committed     use  git checkout --  lt file gt      to discard changes in working directory       modified    b txt  no changes added to commit  use  git add  and or  git commit -a     So  in this case - if the changes are staged  git reset will basically make staged changes into unstaged changes - while git checkout will overwrite the changes completely

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If your file is already staged  happens when you do a git add etc after the file is edited  to unstage your changes   Use   git reset HEAD  lt file gt    Then   git checkout  lt file gt    If not already staged  just use  git checkout  lt file gt

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If you want to just undo the previous commit s changes to that one file  you can try this   git checkout branchname  filename   This will checkout the file as it was before the last commit  If you want to go a few more commits back  use the branchname n notation

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I have Done through git bash    use  git checkout --  lt file gt      to discard changes in working directory    Git status   So we have seen one file wad modified   git checkout -- index html  i have changed in index html file   git status  now those changes was removed

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Just use  git checkout filename   This will replace filename with the latest version from the current branch   WARNING  your changes will be discarded  mdash  no backup is kept

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For me only this one worked  git checkout -p filename

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I don t know why but when I try to enter my code  it comes up as an image

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I restore my files using the SHA id  What i do is git checkout  lt sha hash id gt   lt file name gt

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If it is already committed  you can revert the change for the file and commit again  then squash new commit with last commit

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This answers is for command needed for undoing local changes which are in multiple specific files in same or multiple folders  or directories    This answers specifically addresses question where a user has more than one file but the user doesn t want to undo all local changes       if you have one or more files you could apply the same command  git checkout -- file   to   each of those files by listing each of their location separated by   space as in    git checkout -- name1 name2 fileOne ext nameA subFolder fileTwo ext      mind the space above between name1 name2 fileOne ext nameA subFolder fileTwo ext    For multiple files in the same folder      If you happen to need to discard changes for all of the files in a   certain directory  use the git checkout as follows    git checkout -- name1 name2     The asterisk in the above does the trick of undoing all files at that location under name1 name2      And  similarly the following can undo changes in all files for   multiple folders    git checkout -- name1 name2   nameA subFolder        again mind the space between name1 name2   nameA subFolder   in the   above    Note  name1  name2  nameA  subFolder - all of these example folder names indicate the folder or package where the file s  in question may be residing

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If you have not yet pushed or otherwise shared your commit   git diff --stat HEAD    HEAD     fgrep filename snippet to revert   cut -d    -f2   xargs git checkout HEAD  -- git commit -a --amend

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