I have cloned git project into local git repository. Then I have done something nasty to one of the files and in that panic I deleted file physically from drive (rm style.css) and also removed it from git (git rm style.css).
I want to get original style.css back from origin to my dev branch. Unfortunately my git thinks it is up-to-date and wont do anything.
root@debian:~/project.me# git status
# On branch dev
nothing to commit (working directory clean)
root@debian:~/project.me# git pull origin dev
Password for 'https://someone@github.com':
From https://github.com/somewhere/project.me
* branch dev -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.
What do I need to do to tell git that I want to download original style.css file back into my dev branch?
Use git checkout. In your case:
git checkout origin/master style.css
This command will update the requested file from the given branch (here the remote branch origin/master).
Hope this helps
If you want to restore all the missing files from the local repository
git checkout .
Warning: This method also restores all changed files and drops all the changes
Go to the location of style.css (may be app/css/ )using console otherwise there will be pathspec error.
then execute :
git checkout origin/master style.css
I intentionally deleted some files from a clone --depth 1 and this brought the main files, and submodule ones, back.
git checkout . -f && git submodule update --checkout -f
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9705626/how-do-i-pull-missing-file-back-into-my-branch