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Reverting a single file

Stefan Baumgartner

Written by @ddprrt

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You can do the following to revert a single filename to its previous status.

If the file isn’t commited: #

git checkout filename

If the file is already commited #

filename is the path to your file, abcde is the hash of the commit you want to switch to.

git checkout abcde filename

or

git reset abcde filename

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