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Created May 22, 2016 22:23
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Find and restore a deleted file in a Git
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git-restore-file.sh
# Find last commit for the deleted file
git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- $path
# Checkout the commit before the the delete happened
git checkout $commit^ -- $path
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What do $path and $commit contain?

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dolansgists commented Jan 24, 2018 •
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@doctordns

$path is the path to the file.
$commit is the value returned by the first command. More specifically it is the id of the commit where the file last existed.

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