From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:39:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Can I checkout a single file without altering index?
Message-ID: <AANLkTinnYEnCwpTh45N69n73JQm=ndXH-SUJ5b1piUYv@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20101012T114900-532@post.gmane.org>

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:03, Christian Halstrick
<christian.halstrick@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can I checkout a certain file to a specific revision without also adding this
> content to the index? I only want to alter the working-tree - no modification of
> index or HEAD needed.

"git show <revision-specification>:path/name > path/name" ?