Eclipse git checkout (aka, revert)

Question

Is it possible to do the equivalent of git checkout from within Eclipse using the EGit plugin?

I have a file that's been modified. I want to discards the changes and revert the file back to what's in the source repository. In Subversion this is called revert. In git the equivalent is checkout.

I can't find any menu item under Team that looks like checkout or revert. I'm using EGit 0.6.0.

Answer 1

You can achieve this by doing a (hard) reset. On the project's context menu, select Team > Reset to..., choose "HEAD" and "Hard" as reset type.

Please note that doing this you will lose the changesof ALL files. AFAIK there is no way (yet) to revert just a single file.

Answer 2

The functionality is actually in there, but it may be non-obvious:

• Make sure quickdiff is enabled with a git revision and the quickdiff baseline is HEAD (this is the default).
• Open the file you want to revert.
• Select everything (Ctrl-A)
• Right-Click in the quickdiff bar
• Select "Revert selection"
• Save

btw, revert in git lingo means create a new commit to revert an earlier commit.