From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:24:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Is it possible to roll back unstaged changes while leaving the staged ones for the next commit?
Message-ID: <c115fd3c0812180424q3ac080a8iad53803fd3f2bb4d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081218123456.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> wrote:

> A short answer is "no it is not the case."

Thanks.

> I was about to quote "git checkout" documentation to you because I was reasonably sure that Junio won't respond to people who ask a question whose answer is plainly described in the manual pages, but I think the description of the command is a little confusing especially for people who read it for the first time.

Agreed.

>  When <paths> are given, this command does *not* switch
>  branches.  It updates the named paths in the working tree from
>  the index file, or from a named <tree-ish> (most often a commit).  In
>  this case, the `-b` options is meaningless and giving
>  either of them results in an error.  <tree-ish> argument can be
>  used to specify a specific tree-ish (i.e. commit, tag or tree)

Works a lot better.

Thanks for the help!

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