Check out a file as it was on a specific commit | The Git Checkout Command
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Sometimes you want to check out a file as it was on a specific commit. You can do this easily by using the Git checkout command:
git checkout commitSha -- insertFileNameHere
To check out the file Controller.java, you could do the following:
git checkout 61b04017a359339d191143cc5a2269bf06acd9e2 -- Controller.java
Reference
For full reference see Git checkout documentation.