From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:33:24 GMT
Subject: Re: How to git checkout a orgin(unstage) version file in another directoy?
Message-ID: <7vpqqqcxzf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D5CDBAD.4050700@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> I'm not sure what you mean by "origin" version, but if you mean the
> version from the current revision (before making and staging changes),
> you would check out from HEAD instead of from the index:
>
> git --work-tree=. --git-dir="/media/linux/t/kernel/.git" checkout HEAD
> -- README

Wouldn't that still affect the index in /media/linux/t/kernel/.git/index,
making /media/linux/t/kernel/README and the index entry out-of-sync?