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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Can I checkout a single file without altering index?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:39:45 +0200
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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" ?