From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:36:50 GMT
Subject: Re: What to expect after GIT 0.99.7
Message-ID: <20050919083650.GA22269@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vwtldsbv2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:25:21AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> * Perhaps a tool to revert a single file to pre-modification
> >>   state?  git-cat-file blob `git-ls-files | grep foo` >foo or
> >>   git-cat-file blob `git-ls-tree HEAD foo` >foo?  What should
> >>   the command be called?  git-revert is taken so is
> >>   git-checkout.
> >
> > git-checkout can be extended to accept filenames, which would have the
> > additional benefit of enabling me to get any revision, not just HEAD.
> >
> > So can git-reset.
> >
> > I agree with Anton's "git clean"; with an optional -r <commit>
> > argument, that would be a better solution.
> 
> It probably is because I am BK untainted, but 'git clean' sounds
> as if it would do 'git-ls-files --others | xargs rm -f'.

FWIW, that's also what cg-clean does. It uses cg-restore -f filename to
restore files to the state of the last commit, but it's not like I'd be
terribly happy about that.

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