Re: What to expect after GIT 0.99.7

From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Sep 19, 2005, 07:35 UTC
Message-ID: <pan.2005.09.19.07.35.56.960375@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsr6ymg3.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * Perhaps a tool to revert a single file to pre-modification
>   state?  git-cat-file blob `git-ls-files | grep foo` >foo or
>   git-cat-file blob `git-ls-tree HEAD foo` >foo?  What should
>   the command be called?  git-revert is taken so is
>   git-checkout.

git-checkout can be extended to accept filenames, which would have the additional benefit of enabling me to get any revision, not just HEAD.

So can git-reset.

I agree with Anton's "git clean"; with an optional -r <commit> argument, that would be a better solution.

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