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From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Halstrick <christian.halstrick@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can I checkout a single file without altering index?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:39:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CB48F56.3020404@dbservice.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinnYEnCwpTh45N69n73JQm=ndXH-SUJ5b1piUYv@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/12/10 5:39 PM, Alex Riesen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:03, Christian Halstrick
> <christian.halstrick@gmail.com> 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.
> 
> "git show <revision-specification>:path/name > path/name" ?

I heard that git-show doesn't apply filters to the file (smudge/clean or
any custom ones). Keep that in mind when using it.

tom

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-12 16:40 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
2010-10-13 17:09   ` Jared Hance
2010-10-12 15:39 ` Alex Riesen
2010-10-12 16:39   ` Tomas Carnecky [this message]
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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