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Re:More Productive Git by tbrock on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:28PM (#20006385)
One would idiomatically use “git checkout <path-to-file>” for the functionality described by the author: “get some file back to the latest version committed in HEAD”.

Stopped reading after I saw this.

Re:More Productive Git by booleandilemma on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:06PM (#20006875)
Same. Came here looking for a comment that would point this out and I was not disappointed.

Trying to learn something from a bad article is worse than reading no article at all.