Re: Add porcelain command to revert a single staged file to its HEAD state while preserving its staged state

From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: May 4, 2013, 08:58 UTC
Message-ID: <87obcryvcw.fsf@hexa.v.cablecom.net>
In-Reply-To: <CADeMBooSZA4D7YctRpRf+axjcUhkMBaJhkd89nssxZYFKph5sA@mail.gmail.com>

Dimitar Bonev <dsbonev@gmail.com> writes:

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> I have been looking for such a command/option and no one gave me
> sufficient answer. So this message should be considered as a feature
> request. I had a situation where I had staged a file with a problem
> solution in it, then I wanted to experiment with a different solution
> so I had to revert the file to its HEAD state and I couldn't find a
> way that preserves the staged state of that file. More discussions:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/git-users/nYiN-rE_3i0
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16335799/git-porcelain-command-to-revert-a-single-file-to-its-head-state-but-keep-its-sta

Is that a common enough issue to warrant a better solution than

  git show HEAD:targetfile > targetfile

which is how we would do it?

Or more likely,

  git commit -m WIP
  git revert -n HEAD

which is safer anyway, since it doesn't lose the formerly-staged state so easily (you have the reflog in case of any mistakes).

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch