Restore a deleted file/path in a Git repo. I met a problem when upgrading a Rails 2 project to 3. I removed the images, javascripts and stylesheets dirs in the public/, and committed the change, but I accidentally forgot to move all the images to asset. So here's a quick way to restore the images I need.

restore_removed_path_in_git

`git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- <file_path>`
Then checkout the version at the commit before.
`git checkout <deleting_commit>^ -- <file_path>`

Or in one command, if $file is the file in question.

`git checkout $(git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- "$file")^ -- "$file"`

The solution works fine on bash, but zsh has it's own expansion on '^'. So simply replace '^' with '~1', ~X allows you to specify X commits before the specified commit, so ~1 is the commit before, ~2 is two commits before, etc

`git checkout <deleting_commit>~1 -- <file_path>`

another way is to escape '^' with '\^',
`git checkout <deleting_commit>\^ -- <file_path>`