Re: [PATCH 6/8] checkout: add --cached option

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 1, 2019, 17:57 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqlg2zz90l.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8CHHT=9e9ti7VA4X4h3FrZcUKvLuzkL56mXLgjk4c5Qcg@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

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> Of course we could just do --index and --worktree, each option
> restores the respective part. Then it's combinable (and extensible in
> the future). But then "git restore" means "git restore --index
> --worktree" and typing "git restore --index" effectively removes the
> default "--worktree", which seems a bit twisted.

Or "git restore --no-worktree" (essentially, instead of saying "keep", say "no" to mean "negation").

Incidentally, "git restore --no-index" does not have a counterpart in "git checkout", but I think it is probably a good thing to add; as it has to do far more than "git cat-file blob $tree:$path >$path" these days.

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