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Re: Hard reset of a subdirectory in a sparse checkout setting

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 23, 2013, 09:59 UTC
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Kirill Müller <kirill.mueller@ivt.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:

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> I can't find a neat way to "git reset --hard" a subdirectory of a checkout
> without reading in directories or files which are excluded by a sparse
> checkout. This has been asked on StackOverflow in greater detail, but the
> "right" answer is still missing: http://stackoverflow.com/q/15404535/946850
>
> The options I see are:
>
> - git checkout . (will restore excluded directories)
>
> - git reset --hard (won't accept a path argument)
>
> - git diff | patch -R (awkward)
Another way is
git diff --name-only -z|xargs -0 git checkout
> What's the proper way to do this in Git?

I think adding --sparse to git checkout may be more user-friendly. And it looks like a simple change. I'll make a patch soon (I need some time to recall how sparse checkout interacts with git-checkout).

-- 
Duy
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Message 2 of 17 in “Hard reset of a subdirectory in a sparse checkout setting”
  1. Kirill MüllerMar 22, 2013
  2. Duy NguyenMar 23, 2013
  3. Kirill MüllerMar 23, 2013
  4. checkout: add --sparse for restoring files in sparse checkout modeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 24, 2013
  5. Eric SunshineMar 24, 2013
  6. Jonathan NiederMar 24, 2013
  7. Kirill MüllerMar 24, 2013
  8. Duy NguyenMar 25, 2013
  9. Jonathan NiederMar 25, 2013
  10. checkout: add --no-widen for restoring files in sparse checkout modeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 30, 2013
  11. Jonathan NiederApr 1, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 1, 2013
  13. Duy NguyenApr 1, 2013
  14. Jonathan NiederApr 1, 2013
  15. checkout: add --ignore-skip-worktree-bits in sparse checkout modeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 12, 2013
  16. Müller KirillMay 14, 2013
  17. Duy NguyenMay 14, 2013

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