From 18e417fff8ac42ebf3a6ad78658330ceeb633693 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:26:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add Checkout Old Version Of A File as a git til.

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 README.md                             |  1 +
 git/checkout-old-version-of-a-file.md | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 git/checkout-old-version-of-a-file.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c952bb5..864b60a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ smart people at [Hashrocket](http://hashrocket.com/).
 
 ### git
 
+- [Checkout Old Version Of A File](git/checkout-old-version-of-a-file.md)
 - [Checkout Previous Branch](git/checkout-previous-branch.md)
 - [Delete All Untracked Files](git/delete-all-untracked-files.md)
 - [Dry Runs in Git](git/dry-runs-in-git.md)
diff --git a/git/checkout-old-version-of-a-file.md b/git/checkout-old-version-of-a-file.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..08ee606
--- /dev/null
+++ b/git/checkout-old-version-of-a-file.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Checkout Old Version Of A File
+
+When you want to return to a past version of a file, you can reset to a past
+commit. When you don't want to abandon a bunch of other changes, this isn't
+going to cut it. Another option is to just checkout the particular file as
+it was at the time of a past commit.
+
+If the sha of that past commit is `72f2675` and the file's name is
+`some_file.rb`, then just use checkout like so:
+
+```
+$ git checkout 72f2675 some_file.rb
+```