From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:39:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [checkout-index] Give names to stages
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612041237490.28348@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <el113s$25v$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> > 
> >> This patch merely allows the user to say
> >>    git-checkout-index --stage=ours their_broken_file.c
> >> instead of
> >>    git-checkout-index --stage=2 their_broken_file.c
> >> and similarly for "theirs", etc.
> > 
> > Dunno. When this problem hits me, I usually do
> > 
> >       git diff --theirs their_broken_file.c
> > 
> > anyway, to see what it is doing (colour and all). When I am satisfied, 
> > that "theirs" is really what I want, I just go back one in history, and 
> > append a call to git-apply like this:
> > 
> >       git diff --theirs their_broken_file.c | git apply --index
> 
> Then
> 
>         git checkout --theirs their_broken_file.c
> 
> is obvious simplification.

Obvious maybe. But simplification, not to me. Especially since the way I 
call it, there is less possibility to shoot myself into the foot.

But then, I do not really care.

Ciao,
Dscho