Hello,
I searched the net and couldn't find the answer to how to revert a

file to its "pre-modified" state.
I did see in the 0.99.7 To Do:
* Perhaps a tool to revert a single file to pre-modification

state? git-cat-file blob `git-ls-files | grep foo` >foo or

git-cat-file blob `git-ls-tree HEAD foo` >foo? What should

the command be called? git-revert is taken so is

git-checkout.
Did such a command come to be?
Thanks,
Wink Saville

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commit 4aaa702794447d9b281dd22fe532fd61e02434e1

Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Date:   Tue Oct 18 01:29:27 2005 -0700
    git-checkout: revert specific paths to either index or a given tree-ish.
    When extra paths arguments are given, git-checkout reverts only those

    paths to either the version recorded in the index or the version

    recorded in the given tree-ish.
    This has been on the TODO list for quite a while.
    Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
See the EXAMPLES section of git-checkout manual page.
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FYI the above seems more obvious then what's in the man page:
"It updates the named paths in the working tree from the

index file (i.e. it runs git-checkout-index -f -u)."
But for me saying something like;
"It reverts the paths in the working tree to the most recent version stored in git."
would even be better. It may not be as precise as the current sentence,

but more obvious to this neophyte. Finally, in the EXAMPLES you

might add another example of reverting a "modified the file" as

well as recovering a deleted file.
In any case thanks,
Wink

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