Re: [Request] Git reset should be able to ignore file permissions

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ANAlexander Nestorov <alexandernst@gmail.com>

Date

Jun 19, 2013, 08:00 UTC

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<vpqsj0emzdu.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

Ok, this is how it looks. If everything is ok, I'm sending it to the ML

>From 262bdfb5cc84fec7c9b74dc92bb604f9d168ef9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Alexander Nestorov <alexandernst@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:55:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add example for reseting based on content changes instead of
 stat changes

---
 Documentation/git-reset.txt | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index a404b47..da639e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -289,6 +289,18 @@ $ git reset --keep start                    <3>
 <3> But you can use "reset --keep" to remove the unwanted commit after
     you switched to "branch2".

+Reset only files who's content changed (instead of stat information)::
++
+------------
+$ git update-index --refresh               <1>
+$ git reset --hard                         <2>
+------------
++
+<1> Make Git realize which files actually changed instead of
+checking out all files whether their content changed or only
+their mtime changed.
+<2> Now git reset --hard will checkout only the files that
+actually changed.

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