From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:59:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Hard reset of a subdirectory in a sparse checkout setting
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DmkMWOx-u2=trz+GTtwpbksTbCvUU+AOQYo5SrNtM2Gw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <514C3249.7000100@ivt.baug.ethz.ch>

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Kirill Müller
<kirill.mueller@ivt.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:
> 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