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Best comment ever. Because the one, which is the accepted answer, assumes that the file that has to be fetched is pushed upstream, however this command fetches/restores the file which only exists locally.
– alperc
Commented Aug 21, 2018 at 13:21
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Just tried this in the root folder of my local git repo. I still needed to provide the relative path to the file. Just providing the -- [filename] on it's own didn't work.
– Ben Wrighton
Commented Dec 4, 2018 at 2:09
@ot0 No, it doesn’t assume that. They are exactly the same answer.
– matt
Commented May 30, 2020 at 16:57

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