From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:07:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Restore a single file in the index back to HEAD
Message-ID: <7vpsc78ua3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0610312358g1176e4d8q8962b08c2e8ff2c6@mail.gmail.com>

"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/27/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> On the other hand, I designed --index-info to be compatible with
>> ls-tree output (it is not an accident, it was designed).  In
>>
>>         git ls-tree HEAD frotz | git update-index --index-info
>>
>> "frotz" part does not have to be the exact path but can be a
>> directory name.  It means "revert everything in this directory".
>>
>> This is quite heavy-handed and you would probably want to run
>> update-index --refresh afterwards.
>
> I would prefer "git update-index --reset frotz" or "git checkout
> --index HEAD frotz". git ls-tree|git update-index is too cryptic for
> me and too long for my fingers.

Then perhaps you can use "git checkout HEAD frotz", which is the
simplest?