From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:14:25 GMT
Subject: Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]
Message-ID: <200812310914.25779.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v7i5hymp7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote 
about 'Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and 
other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]':
>"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> writes:
>> "git checkout <branch> <paths>" is similar to "hg revert -r <branch>
>> <paths>",
>
>No it is not.
>
>The form of the command is makes this request:
>
>    Please look into that named <tree-ish>, and check out the named
>    <paths> out of it to my work tree.

That seems similar to "hg revert":
Using the -r option, revert the given files or directories to their
contents as of a specific revision.

>    Because the reason I want them in 
>    my work tree is so that I can include them as part of the next commit
>    I am preparing to create in the index, please update these paths in
> my index while at it.

This part is odd to me, but does make some sense.  I can only think of a 
few reasons to retrieve a file from a different tree-ish without 
immediately turning around and doing "git add <bar>".
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