Re: Can I checkout a single file without altering index?

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 15, 2010, 18:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20101015184302.GA22990@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <i9a6kn$d7o$1@dough.gmane.org>

Hi Neal,

Neal Kreitzinger wrote:

> However, there is an option in git-commit to copy files directly from the 
> working-tree to the object-store by totally bypassing the index

What option is this? I thought "git commit --include" added content to the index.

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