From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:05:48 GMT
Subject: Re: index manipulation -- how?
Message-ID: <7vbr0dgo1f.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051122062048.8891.qmail@web31805.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:

> (There is a very similar construct in git-checkout.sh.
> So if you apply the patch below, please make sure
> git-checkout.sh doesn't break.)

Thanks.

> Question: so in effect, more generally:
>   git checkout <tree-ish> <file>
>
> would do the right thing: update index and the working
> tree as the file <file> looked as it was at <tree-ish>?

Yes that is correct.  Also by omitting <tree-ish> you can
checkout from the index.

I thought what you originally wanted to do was revert only index
without losing your changes from the working tree, so just to
make sure, the above does _not_ do it --- the named file in the
working tree is also reverted to the one from <tree-ish>.