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From: biswaranjan panda <biswaranjan.nitrkl@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Retrieving a file in git that was deleted and committed
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 22:49:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADHAf1Y_d=-9By4jC2xd+BmWJgfGmBNUr=uSuQtfuHDrarN4kw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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

While this does gets the file back, the file shows up as a new file to
be committed. Once I commit it, git blame doesn't show the old history
for the file.

I would appreciate if anyone knows how to preserve git blame history.

             reply	other threads:[~2018-12-07  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-07  6:49 biswaranjan panda [this message]
2018-12-07  6:55 ` Retrieving a file in git that was deleted and committed Bryan Turner
2018-12-07  7:07   ` biswaranjan panda
2018-12-07  7:20     ` Jeff King
2018-12-07  7:37       ` Bryan Turner
2018-12-07 21:50         ` biswaranjan panda
2018-12-08  7:29           ` Jeff King
2018-12-09  0:07             ` biswaranjan panda
2018-12-11  1:19             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-10 21:33       ` Elijah Newren
2018-12-11  9:46         ` Jeff King
2018-12-10 15:12 ` Sergey Organov

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