Re: Can I checkout a single file without altering index?

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Oct 15, 2010, 19:02 UTC
Message-ID: <m2zkufcma2.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <i9a6kn$d7o$1@dough.gmane.org>

"Neal Kreitzinger" <neal@rsss.com> writes:

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> However, there is an option in git-commit to copy files directly from the 
> working-tree to the object-store by totally bypassing the index, but no one 
> seems to do this or recommend doing this as normative practice.  None the 
> less, this "exception" in the git-commit manpage does seem to set the 
> precedent, so maybe it is also conceivable to copy objects directly from the 
> object-store to the work-tree by totally bypassing the index.

You can always do "git cat-file blob <object>", though you have to redirect output manually.

Andreas.

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