How to undelete file in git and keep his original blame history ?

Question

I'v accidentally removed a file (I wasn't his creator) and commit and push it to the remote. Now I want to make git to undelete this change but when I use git revert #mistaken commit it works BUT blame information points at me as the creator of this file not for his original creator. Can anyone knows how to undelete this file in git and keep its original blame history ? Thanks in advance for any help. Adam

Answer 1

The only way to do what you want is to rewrite the revision history with something like Find and restore a deleted file in a Git repository. However, this has the nasty side-effect that everyone who has made commits since the file was deleted will now need to rebase their code. As you can imagine, this will cause a lot of work for everyone on the team.

For the sake of everyone's sanity, it is best just to revert the single commit and leave the "blame" as your own. A little bit of history archaeology will show anyone interested what happened.