git annoyances: how to force git to fetch a particular file

[Dan Kegel]

On 7/10/06, Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
> "Dan Kegel" <dank at kegel.com> writes:
>
> > What's the right way to force a get of a particular file?
> > With cvs, you can just remove the file and do 'cvs update foo.c',
> > but I'm having trouble RTF git M, and the otherwise helpful
> > http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine doesn't seem to mention this case.
>
> git checkout foo.c

That doesn't seem to do it for me.

Sigh, I guess I'll just have to keep blowing away my git tree every
few days... shame I'm not smart enough to use 'git fetch' properly.
- Dan