How to undelete a file previously deleted in git's history?

Question

Using Chris's answer on another question I could prepend a snapshot-history to my git repository. Since one of the files is not part of my history but only in the snapshots, the first original commit now also contains the deletion of this file. How can I undo that?

At first I thought this was the opposite of How do I remove sensitive files from git’s history, but actually I don't want to insert a file into history but just remove the deletion from history.

Answer 1

git checkout <commit> <filename> 

Answer 2

I got it:

git tag originalHead # just in case git rebase -i <id of the parent of the commit that deleted the file> # change pick to edit for that commit git checkout <id of the previous commit> <filename> # thanks for reminding, kubi git commit --amend git rebase --continue git tag -d originalHead 

edit unfortunately this will leave all tags at the old timeline, see here