How to undo local changes to a specific file [duplicate]

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I’m trying to undo local changes to a specific file. Nothing has been committed.

When I want to revert all changes, I can perform git revert --reset HEAD. However, in this case, I don’t want to revert all changes to all files.

Its not clear or obvious to me how to revert just a file, even after reading the git-revert(3) man page:

NAME
       git-revert - Revert some existing commits

SYNOPSIS
       git revert [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>...
       git revert --continue
       git revert --quit
       git revert --abort
...

This is similar to How to revert a specific file in a old commit on git, but no commits have been performed. And unlike OP, who wants to go back to an arbitrary commit, I just want the file to return to MASTER’s copy of it.

Under SVN, I would just delete the file in question and then perform a svn update.

How do I revert changes to a single file?

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