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Re: What I miss from Cogito...

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Mar 23, 2008, 17:46 UTC
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<47E6978C.4040207@zytor.com>
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<20080323173841.GA24943@mit.edu>
Theodore Tso wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:15:48AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> 2. cg-restore
>>
>>    Cogito separated "reset" and "restore".  This is a syntactic sugar
>>    issue, but having to type "git reset --hard -- path" makes me
>>    nervous, especially since hitting Enter at the wrong time could have
>>    serious and irrevocable consequences.
>>
>>    I also note that this particular use of "git reset" is actually
>>    undocumented, but it seems to work.
> 
> I didn't think "git reset --hard -- <pathame>" was valid, since it's
> not documented in the man page.
> 
> I have the following in my path as "git-revert-file" (which is easier
> to type and less dangerous than typing "git reset --hard -- <path>"):
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)
> 
> for i in $*
> do
>         git show HEAD:$prefix$i > $i
> done
> 

FWIW, cg-restore is a 131-line shell script, so one can assume it's not just doing it for fun.

	-hpa
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  1. H. Peter AnvinMar 23, 2008
  2. Theodore TsoMar 23, 2008
  3. H. Peter AnvinMar 23, 2008
  4. Petr BaudisMar 27, 2008
  5. Luciano RochaMar 23, 2008
  6. Mike HommeyMar 23, 2008
  7. Bruce StephensMar 23, 2008
  8. Mike HommeyMar 23, 2008
  9. Florian WeimerMar 23, 2008
  10. Theodore TsoMar 24, 2008
  11. Björn SteinbrinkMar 24, 2008
  12. Theodore TsoMar 24, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2008
  14. Documentation/git-checkout: Update summary to reflect current abilitiesJulian Phillips, Mar 24, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2008
  16. Documentation/git-checkout: Update summary to reflect current abilitiesJulian Phillips, Mar 24, 2008
  17. Björn SteinbrinkMar 24, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinMar 23, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2008
  20. H. Peter AnvinMar 23, 2008
  21. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2008
  22. Daniel BarkalowMar 23, 2008
  23. H. Peter AnvinMar 23, 2008

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