From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:32:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Change "pull" to _only_ download, and "git update"=pull+merge?
Message-ID: <20050420203235.GA13270@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20050420200504.GB19112@pasky.ji.cz>


* Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> wrote:

> > 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