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

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 15, 2010, 18:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20101015185539.GA30380@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20101015184302.GA22990@burratino>

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:43:02PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> 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.

git commit -o|--only, which is the same as "git commit <paths>". Of course it still uses an index, to create the tree, but it uses a temporary one based on HEAD instead of the current index contents.

-Peff