From: Sean Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:17:16 GMT Subject: Re: About detached heads Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:11:33 -0700 (PDT) Jakub Narebski wrote: > AFAIK the porcelain equivalent to plumbing > > git read-tree -u -m 3 > > is just > > git checkout 3 -- . Hi Jakub, git checkout . won't remove paths, so you could end up with extra state that didn't exist in the earlier commit. Sean