Re: [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told to

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 25, 2008, 17:22 UTC
Message-ID: <7v63rx2zwf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080625135100.GF20361@mit.edu>

Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

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> I used to argue for this, but gave up, because no one seemed to agree
> with me.  So now I just have the following in
> /home/tytso/bin/git-revert-file and I am very happy:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)
>
> for i in $*
> do
>         git show HEAD:$prefix$i > $i
> done

Isn't that this?

        #!/bin/sh
        exec git checkout HEAD -- "$@"

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