From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:09:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Question about removing changes from the index
Message-ID: <20090206140911.GC31491@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <a1e915350902060557m5a67eba0q819c2ba2a0a49c21@mail.gmail.com>

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