From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:12:27 GMT
Subject: Re: checkout vs reset
Message-ID: <76718490902252312h6a08f5a6x972523e7c7e4af16@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <76718490902252308r474b193yba21b14e14a3baa@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any different between the following two commands?
>
> git reset <commit> -- <paths>...
> git checkout <commit> -- <paths>...
>
> As far as I can tell from the man pages, they are equivalent. To wit:
> both update the index and working copy for the given paths to the
> state that they were in in <commit>.

Doh, answering my own question. reset only touches the index, not the
working copy. checkout updates both.

j.