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On Friday 08 May 2009, david@lang.hm wrote:
> removing the index and doing a checkout would be a reasonable thing to do
> (at least conceptually), I will admit that I don't remember ever seeing a
> command (or discussion of one) that would let me do that.

What about:

  rm .git/index
  git checkout -f

or maybe:

  git update-index --no-assume-unchanged --refresh
  git checkout -f

Hm?

....Johan

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