Title: Git: Checkout revisions past Tags: git|git-checkout Date: 2012-12-22 21:41:34 -0500 Author: Denevell
If you want to checkout a file as it was one revision ago on the master branch:
git checkout master~1 thedir/thefile.txt
I used this to remove an update to a file when amending a commit.
(I hadn't pushed to master, hence the ability to amend without screwing things up.)