[Omin]

I can't reasonably start using such functionality until the PC with the oldest software that I still use has updated or I will have to deal with 2 ways of doing things all the time.

Currently, that's an ubuntu 18.04 machine at work and that doesn't have `git restore`, yet.

[coder543]

You could install newer versions of git using a ppa: https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ubuntu/ppa