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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Can I checkout a single file without altering index?
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:55:39 -0400
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:43:02PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Neal Kreitzinger wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> What option is this?  I thought "git commit --include" added content
> to the index.

git commit -o|--only, which is the same as "git commit <paths>". Of
course it still uses an index, to create the tree, but it uses a
temporary one based on HEAD instead of the current index contents.

-Peff