Re: How to git checkout a orgin(unstage) version file in another directoy?

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Feb 17, 2011, 12:35 UTC
Message-ID: <4D5D1603.6040208@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110217T110820-459@post.gmane.org>

Chunlin Zhang venit, vidit, dixit 17.02.2011 11:17:

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> Michael J Gruber <git <at> drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>> git --work-tree=. --git-dir="/media/linux/t/kernel/.git" checkout HEAD
> But after I test,I found that after run this command,the file I do 
> checkout action become unstaged.
> It is weard,because I have set the "--work-tree" to another directory.
> my command line for example:
> git --work-tree=. --git-dir="/media/linux/t/kernel/.git" checkout 
> HEAD -- Android.mk
> 
> You can test with a git repository.I have no idea how to work around now.
>

So, you don't really want to "checkout" the file. You only want its contents without updating the index. (My brain is apparently too git-rotted already to even think of the possibility that you didn't mean "our checkout" by "checkout").

Jonathan gave you the perfect solution for what you want.

Michael