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Re: Question about removing changes from the index

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Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 6, 2009, 14:09 UTC
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On 2009.02.06 14:57:35 +0100, Gustav Hållberg wrote:
> I'm wondering if there's anyone who can recommend a smart way to
> "reset" the index entry for individual files to the contents of HEAD,
> in effect, removing any previous change between HEAD and the index
> (for those files).
Believe it or not, it's "git reset" ;-)
git reset -- file

You can only reset the index entry for that file to some older version, e.g. "git reset HEAD~5 -- file".

Björn
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