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Re: Change "pull" to _only_ download, and "git update"=pull+merge?

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IMIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date
Apr 20, 2005, 20:32 UTC
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* Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> wrote:
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> > yet another thing: what is the canonical 'pasky way' of simply nuking 
> > the current files and checking out the latest tree (according to 
> > .git/HEAD). Right now i'm using a script to:
> > 
> >   read-tree $(tree-id $(cat .git/HEAD))
> >   checkout-cache -a
> > 
> > (i first do an 'rm -f *' in the working directory)
> > 
> > i guess there's an existing command for this already?
> 
> git cancel

hm, that's a pretty unintuitive name though. How about making it 'git checkout' and providing a 'git checkout -f' option to force the checkout? (or something like this)

	Ingo
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  1. Add "clone" support to lntreeDaniel Barkalow, Apr 16, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  3. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsApr 16, 2005
  5. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  6. Daniel BarkalowApr 16, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  8. Daniel BarkalowApr 17, 2005
  9. Petr BaudisApr 19, 2005
  10. Change "pull" to _only_ download, and "git update"=pull+merge?David A. Wheeler, Apr 19, 2005
  11. David GreavesApr 19, 2005
  12. Petr BaudisApr 19, 2005
  13. Martin SchlemmerApr 19, 2005
  14. Petr BaudisApr 19, 2005
  15. Jon SeymourApr 19, 2005
  16. Martin SchlemmerApr 19, 2005
  17. Daniel BarkalowApr 19, 2005
  18. David A. WheelerApr 19, 2005
  19. Daniel BarkalowApr 19, 2005
  20. Ingo MolnarApr 20, 2005
  21. Petr BaudisApr 20, 2005
  22. Ingo MolnarApr 20, 2005
  23. Ingo MolnarApr 20, 2005
  24. Petr BaudisApr 20, 2005
  25. David MansfieldApr 20, 2005
  26. Daniel BarkalowApr 16, 2005
  27. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  28. Daniel BarkalowApr 16, 2005
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