From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:58:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Restore a single file in the index back to HEAD
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0610312358g1176e4d8q8962b08c2e8ff2c6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vac3igjpd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 10/27/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> On the other hand, I designed --index-info to be compatible with
> ls-tree output (it is not an accident, it was designed).  In
>
>         git ls-tree HEAD frotz | git update-index --index-info
>
> "frotz" part does not have to be the exact path but can be a
> directory name.  It means "revert everything in this directory".
>
> This is quite heavy-handed and you would probably want to run
> update-index --refresh afterwards.

I would prefer "git update-index --reset frotz" or "git checkout
--index HEAD frotz". git ls-tree|git update-index is too cryptic for
me and too long for my fingers.
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