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From: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com>
To: Christian Halstrick <christian.halstrick@gmail.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can I checkout a single file without altering index?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:14:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CB44318.7000305@atlas-elektronik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20101012T114900-532@post.gmane.org>

On 10/12/2010 12:03 PM, Christian Halstrick wrote:
> Can I checkout a certain file to a specific revision without also adding this 
> content to the index? I only want to alter the working-tree - no modification of 
> index or HEAD needed.
> 
> Here is why I need that: I see a bug in git controlled sources. I fix one source
> file and also add one unit test in a separate file. I checked that the test
> succeeds with my fix. The index now contains what I want to commit.
> Now I want to see whether my test fails without my fix. I want to checkout HEAD
> for the source file without destroying my index. In the end, after I saw that my
> test fails without my fix, I just want to say "git commit" without having to.

commit the unit test first, and the fix as a second commit ?

Regards,
  Stefan
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-12 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-12 10:03 Can I checkout a single file without altering index? Christian Halstrick
2010-10-12 10:19 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-10-12 11:14 ` Stefan Naewe [this message]
2010-10-13 17:09   ` Jared Hance
2010-10-12 15:39 ` Alex Riesen
2010-10-12 16:39   ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-10-14  8:03   ` Christian Halstrick
2010-10-15 18:30     ` Neal Kreitzinger
2010-10-15 18:43       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-15 18:55         ` Jeff King
2010-10-15 19:32           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-15 19:48             ` Jeff King
2010-10-15 18:57         ` Neal Kreitzinger
2010-10-15 19:02       ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-15 23:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-15 23:40         ` Jonathan Nieder

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