From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:39:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Can I checkout a single file without altering index?
Message-ID: <4CB48F56.3020404@dbservice.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinnYEnCwpTh45N69n73JQm=ndXH-SUJ5b1piUYv@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/12/10 5:39 PM, Alex Riesen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:03, Christian Halstrick
> <christian.halstrick@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can I checkout a certain file to a specific revision without also adding this
>> content to the index? I only want to alter the working-tree - no modification of
>> index or HEAD needed.
> 
> "git show <revision-specification>:path/name > path/name" ?

I heard that git-show doesn't apply filters to the file (smudge/clean or
any custom ones). Keep that in mind when using it.

tom