From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:33:13 GMT
Subject: Re: git reset --hard w/o touching every file
Message-ID: <20081102033313.GB4936@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <geicn8$ss8$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 04:03:50PM -0400, Edward Z. Yang wrote:

> Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > git checkout HEAD -- <list of the files>
> 
> What if I do not know a priori which files *do* need to be updated? Is
> there a command that I can get this information from? Also, I may not

Sorry, I don't quite understand. You want to check out some subset of
files, but you don't know which subset?

Try "git status" or "git diff" to look at which files have changes?

Or maybe we didn't understand your original question.

> necessarily be checking out HEAD.

Doing

  git checkout v1.5 -- <list of files>

or using any other ref will work just fine.

-Peff