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How to pull force just one folder in dev tree?

Subject: How to pull force just one folder in dev tree?

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3 messages between Jun 5, 2012 and Jun 11, 2012.

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J.V.· Jun 5, 2012, 17:41 UTC · lore

If I am in my source code tree down deep in a directory at the command line, how do I pull from a repo and force overwrite all files locally (and also get files that I deleted locally, just in the folder I am in?)

I do not want to do this for the entire repo, just the directory that I am in and also on the branch I am in. I am not in the 'master' branch, but another branch.

so

  $git reset --hard HEAD

  Would probably do my entire local repo and from 'master' (even if I am 
not on master)?

--- I want to git force pull from the branch I am on locally (tracked to a branch on a remote bare repo) and force overwrite of all files locally & also get the files I may have deleted locally from the file system (not files deleted through git).

How do I practice this to see what would happen (or revert) your solution if there are problems?

Junio C Hamano· Jun 5, 2012, 18:35 UTC · re: J.V. · lore

Re: How to pull force just one folder in dev tree?

"J.V." <jvsrvcs@gmail.com> writes:

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> If I am in my source code tree down deep in a directory at the command
> line, how do I pull from a repo and force overwrite all files locally
> (and also get files that I deleted locally, just in the folder I am
> in?)
>
> I do not want to do this for the entire repo, just the directory that
> I am in and also on the branch I am in.  I am not in the 'master'
> branch, but another branch.
>
> so
>
>  $git reset --hard HEAD
>
>  Would probably do my entire local repo and from 'master' (even if I
> am not on master)?

No. It asks "Please reset the index and the working tree files to match what I have in the commit I checked out". If you are on the 'slave' branch, the index and the working tree files are updated to match the commit at the tip of the 'slave' branch.

It is unclear what you are trying to do, but if you made random changes in files in your current directory (somewhere deep), all changes are crap and you regret making them, and you are wishing to go back to the state you started from, then the way to ask "I want everything in this directory checked out from my current branch" is to say:

	$ git checkout HEAD -- .

Philip Oakley· Jun 11, 2012, 20:18 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: How to pull force just one folder in dev tree?

From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "J.V." <jvsrvcs@gmail.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: How to pull force just one folder in dev tree?

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> "J.V." <jvsrvcs@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> If I am in my source code tree down deep in a directory at the
>> command
>> line, how do I pull from a repo and force overwrite all files locally
>> (and also get files that I deleted locally, just in the folder I am
>> in?)

I think the particular command for this case would be
    git checkout [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>.]
where the paths are defined as a pathspec (see git glossary for
details).

Though you should review how you got into this sticky situation and consider how you would adjust your workflow so you don't repeat the problem. e.g. creating a temporary branch earlier, with more commits or stashes.

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>>
>> I do not want to do this for the entire repo, just the directory that
>> I am in and also on the branch I am in.  I am not in the 'master'
>> branch, but another branch.
>>
>> so
>>
>>  $git reset --hard HEAD
>>
>>  Would probably do my entire local repo and from 'master' (even if I
>> am not on master)?
>
> No. It asks "Please reset the index and the working tree files to
> match what I have in the commit I checked out".  If you are on the
> 'slave' branch, the index and the working tree files are updated to
> match the commit at the tip of the 'slave' branch.
>
> It is unclear what you are trying to do, but if you made random
> changes in files in your current directory (somewhere deep), all
> changes are crap and you regret making them, and you are wishing to
> go back to the state you started from, then the way to ask "I want
> everything in this directory checked out from my current branch" is
> to say:
>
> $ git checkout HEAD -- .
>
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