From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:38:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Restore a single file in the index back to HEAD
Message-ID: <20061027073834.GC29057@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200610270827.17659.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> However, it led me to wonder what the inverse of git-update-index is.

git-update-index  :-)

You can use something like:

    git ls-tree HEAD oops/file1 | git update-index --index-info 

to restore the index state of oops/file1.


Which leads us to the always interesting, fun and exciting:

    git ls-tree -r HEAD | git update-index --index-info 

which will undo everything except 'git add' from the index, as
ls-tree -r is listing everything in the last commit.

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