GIT - Restore a deleted file in a Git repo URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/953481/restore-a-deleted-file-in-a-git-repo Say I'm in a Git repository. I delete a file and commit that change. I continue working and make some more commits. Then, I find I need to restore that file.

restoreDeletedFileFromRepo.txt

/* Find the last commit that affected the given path. As the file isn't in the HEAD commit, this commit must have deleted it.*/

git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- <file_path>

// Then checkout the version at the commit before

git checkout <deleting_commit>^ -- <file_path>

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

git checkout $(git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- <file_path>)^ -- <file_path>