Re: Retrieving a file in git that was deleted and committed

2018-12-08 Thread biswaranjan panda
t in place in the >long term. > -Peff Ah I see. Will try git-replace. Thanks! On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 11:29 PM Jeff King wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:50:57PM -0800, biswaranjan panda wrote: > > > Thanks Jeff and Bryan! However, I am curious that if there were a wa

Re: Retrieving a file in git that was deleted and committed

2018-12-07 Thread biswaranjan panda
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 11:26 PM Jeff King wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:07:00PM -0800, biswaranjan panda wrote: >> > >> Thanks! Strangely git log --follow does work. >> >> I suspect it would work even without --follow. When you limit a log >>

Re: Retrieving a file in git that was deleted and committed

2018-12-06 Thread biswaranjan panda
Thanks! Strangely git log --follow does work. On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:55 PM Bryan Turner wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:49 PM biswaranjan panda > wrote: > > > > I have the following scenario: > > > > On a branch A, I deleted a file foo.txt and committed t

Retrieving a file in git that was deleted and committed

2018-12-06 Thread biswaranjan panda
I have the following scenario: On a branch A, I deleted a file foo.txt and committed the change. Then I did a bunch of other changes. Now I want to undelete foo.txt. One way is to checkout a separate branch B where the file is present. Then checkout A. Then do git checkout B -- path_to_file Whil