What's the command to reset a file to a specific commit? [duplicate]

Question

Using git, is there a command which I can reset a file to a specific commit in the commit log?

I know git checkout file can let me reset the file to HEAD, but how to reset to a specific commit version?

Answer 1

Mind your terminology. With git "reset" refers to setting a ref (e.g. branch) to a new commit. You want to put a file from some commit into your working copy. Exactly this is a "checkout".

You can checkout all files of a commit with

git checkout commit

or only part of the commit with

git checkout commit file

If you only want to "show" a file of some commit without changing your working copy you can also use

git show commit:file