[PATCH] Added description for inverting git-update-index using --index-info

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 27, 2006, 09:03 UTC
Message-ID: <200610271003.03308.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200610261641.11239.andyparkins@gmail.com>

I wanted to restore a single file from HEAD back to the index; Shawn Pearce gave me the answer. git-ls-tree piped to git-update-index --index-info.

This patch adds that answer to the git-update-index documentation.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-update-index.txt |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index 41bb7e1..5adf717 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -215,6 +215,24 @@ $ git ls-files -s
 100755 8a1218a1024a212bb3db30becd860315f9f3ac52 2	frotz
 ------------
 
+One particular use of --index-info is to reverse the effect of
+"git-update-index frotz":
+
+------------
+git ls-tree HEAD frotz | git update-index --index-info
+------------
+
+This makes the index hold the file frotz from HEAD rather than from the
+working copy.  Similarly:
+
+------------
+git ls-tree -r HEAD | git update-index --index-info
+------------
+
+Will undo everything except "git add" from the index, as
+"git-ls-tree -r" lists everything in the last commit.
+
+
 
 Using "assume unchanged" bit
 ----------------------------

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