Git - revert single file

In this short article, we would like to show how in Git revert single file to the last version using Bash (or any other command line).

Quick solution:

git checkout HEAD path/to/my-file

Practical example

Let's suppose, we have modified few files and we want to revert only src/components/button.tsx.

Use one of the below commands:

1. git checkout HEAD src/components/button.tsx

2. git checkout -- src/components/button.tsx

Where: HEAD and -- indicate last version.

Full example:

john@ubuntu-pc:/home/john/Projects/shop$ git status

On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   src/components/button.tsx
	modified:   package.json


john@ubuntu-pc:/home/john/Projects/shop$ git checkout HEAD src/components/button.tsx


john@ubuntu-pc:/home/john/Projects/shop$ git status

On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   package.json

We can see the line with modified:   button.tsx disappeared - button.tsx is restored to the last version.