From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 19:20:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Howto update a 'dirty' entry in the cache from the object database
Message-ID: <20050504192002.GH20994@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505041014510.2328@ppc970.osdl.org>

Hello,

> 	# read a new index file with the HEAD information
> 	GIT_INDEX_FILE=tmp-index git-read-tree HEAD

> 	# check out just the one file you want to have
> 	GIT_INDEX_FILE=tmp-index git-checkout-cache -f filename

> 	# remove the now useless temporary index
> 	rm tmp-index

> 	# update your _real_ index file with the file information
> 	git-update-cache filename

thanks. That is exactly what I was looking for.

	Thomas