How to retrieve a single file from a specific revision in Git?

Question

I have a Git repository and I\'d like to see how some files looked a few months ago. I found the revision at that date; it\'s 27cf8e84bb88e24ae4b4b3df2b77aab91a3735d8<

Answer 1

If you wish to replace/overwrite the content of a file in your current branch with the content of the file from a previous commit or a different branch, you can do so with these commands:

git checkout 08618129e66127921fbfcbc205a06153c92622fe path/to/file.txt

or

git checkout mybranchname path/to/file.txt

You will then have to commit those changes in order for them to be effective in the current branch.