From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:55:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told to
Message-ID: <20080626115550.GA23058@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <7v63rx2zwf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 2008.06.25 10:22:08 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > I used to argue for this, but gave up, because no one seemed to agree
> > with me.  So now I just have the following in
> > /home/tytso/bin/git-revert-file and I am very happy:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > #
> > prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)
> >
> > for i in $*
> > do
> >         git show HEAD:$prefix$i > $i
> > done
> 
> Isn't that this?
> 
>         #!/bin/sh
>         exec git checkout HEAD -- "$@"

I thought so at first, too, but there's one difference. Ted's version
doesn't affect the index, while yours does. Of course I cannot tell if
Ted actually intended not to touch the index ;-)

Björn