How do I discard the changes to a single file and overwrite it with a fresh HEAD copy? I want to do git reset --hard to only a single file.
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How do I discard the changes to a single file and overwrite it with a fresh HEAD copy? I want to do git reset --hard to only a single file.
To reset both the working copy of
my-file.txtand its state in the Git index to that of HEAD:--means "treat every argument after this point as a filename". More details in this answer. Thanks to VonC for pointing this out.