hard reset or restore a file to a different location so that it does not affect my current file

Question

To hard reset a single file we do something like:

git checkout HEAD -- my-file.txt

or,

git restore my-file.txt

what if we want to restore the file to a different location or with a different name.

i mean i do not want to change my current my-file.txt but want to restore the previous copy of that file as my-file-old.txt.

How can I do that?

I don't use it much, but I think git stash is meant to keep your current changes somewhere to maybe use later. https://stackoverflow.com/tags/git-stash/info — Marc K, Oct 27 '20 at 22:56

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 28 '20 at 00:59

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git show commit_id:path/to/file > another_path/to/new_name

Example for your case:

git show HEAD:my-file.txt > /tmp/restored-file.txt

answered Oct 28 '20 at 00:59

phd

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