Pull one file from master git5/28/2023 > Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Users/user > C:\Users\user name\Desktop\ms-server-essentials-docs>git init > C:\Users\user name\Desktop>if not exist. > C:\Users\user name\Desktop>pushd "C:\Users\user name\Desktop" > C:\Users\user name\Desktop>sparse_checkout.bat ( echo EssentialsDocs)>.git\info\sparse-checkout Sparse_checkout.bat pushd "%~dp0" if not exist. You'll notice that the operation is slow and traversing hundreds of megabytes of data, so don't use this method if your requirements are based on available bandwidth/R-W memory. I'm using it because it shows some stark caveats. This windows batch works regardless of whether or not it's on GitHub. git checkout strategy noted above by is a nice surgical way to restore the file in question. However, as noted here, git reset is is a potentially dangerous command if you have any other uncommitted changes that you care about. Git reset -hard HEAD is an alternative way to restore the file of interest as it throws away any uncommitted changes you have. svn update which I believe will restore files that have been locally hidden). Git pull not restoring locally missing files has always frustrated me about git, perhaps since I have been influenced by other version control systems (e.g. Simply deleting the file with /bin/rm (not git rm) or renaming/hiding it and then issuing a git pull will not work: git notices the file's absence and assumes you probably want it gone from the repo ( git diff will show all lines deleted from the missing file). This scenario comes up when you - or forces greater than you - have mangled a file in your local repo and you just want to restore a fresh copy of the latest version of it from the repo.
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