Stupid Git Tricks

Reverting files in a commit

Sometimes there is a need to just revert certain files in a commit to do this the fastest way to accomplish this is using the checkout command.

git checkout <commitid> -- file1/to/restore

Get the contents of all of the changes output to a file

This can be helpful when searching through the entire history looking for data buried in checkins that were removed. Very helpful when looking for secrets or api keys that were removed from code.

git log -p > <filename>