From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:57:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp
Message-ID: <51419b2c0811011257v74a75053la59755e7dabe2f09@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4909CC85.1080803@op5.se>

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> I like it, although I guess one would have to add a "--staged" flag to
> git revert-file to be able to checkout files from index as well, or people
> will wonder why that can't be done.

Ew.  'git revert-file --staged foo'?  If you want to revert the
*unstaged* changes of a file, it should be 'git revert-file --unstaged
foo'.
I would expect 'git revert-file --staged foo' to revert the staged
changes in foo, i.e. it should do what 'git reset -- foo' does (except
that it should also work for the initial commit).  Thus, there'd be
little need for a --staged flag to revert-file, unless we allowed
reverting individual files back to some revision prior to HEAD (like
bzr and hg do)...