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From: david@lang.hm
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bevan Watkiss <bevan.watkiss@cloakware.com>,
	"'Alex Riesen'" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE:
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 16:31:09 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0905071629230.15782@asgard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0905071613130.4983@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 7 May 2009, david@lang.hm wrote:
>>
>> what about a reset --hard? (is there any command that would force the files to
>> be re-written, no matter what git thinks is already there)
>
> No, not "git reset --hard" either, I think. Git very much tries to avoid
> rewriting files, and if you've told it that file contents are stable, it
> will believe you.
>
> In fact, I think people used CE_VALID explicitly for the missing parts of
> "partial checkouts", so if we'd suddenly start writing files despite them
> being marked as ok in the tree, I think we'd have broken that part.
>
> (Although again - I'm not sure who would use CE_VALID and friends).
>
> If you want to force everything to be rewritten, you should just remove
> the index (or remove the specific entries in it if you want to do it just
> to a particular file) and then do a "git checkout" to re-read and
> re-populate the tree.
>
> But I'm not really seeing why you want to do this. If you told git that it
> shouldn't care about the working tree, why do you now want it do care?

to be able to manually recover from the case where someone did things that 
they weren't supposed to

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-07 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-07 17:01 (unknown), Bevan Watkiss
2009-05-07 17:13 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-07 17:26   ` Bevan Watkiss
2009-05-07 18:18     ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-07 18:48       ` Bevan Watkiss
2009-05-07 19:56         ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-05-07 18:56     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-07 19:37       ` RE: Bevan Watkiss
2009-05-07 20:07         ` RE: Linus Torvalds
2009-05-07 20:20           ` RE: Linus Torvalds
2009-05-07 20:43             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-07 21:33               ` Re: Linus Torvalds
2009-05-07 21:55             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-07 22:27               ` RE: david
2009-05-07 22:36                 ` RE: Linus Torvalds
2009-05-07 22:43                   ` RE: david
2009-05-07 23:00                     ` RE: Linus Torvalds
2009-05-07 23:07                       ` RE: david
2009-05-07 23:18                         ` RE: Linus Torvalds
2009-05-07 23:31                           ` david [this message]
2009-05-07 23:57                             ` Johan Herland
2009-05-08 16:14                             ` Bevan Watkiss
2009-05-08  8:17               ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-08 14:39                 ` Re: Linus Torvalds
2009-05-08 15:51                   ` Re: Brandon Casey
2009-05-08 16:15                     ` Re: Linus Torvalds
2009-05-08 17:27                       ` Re: Brandon Casey
2009-05-08 17:43                         ` Re: Brandon Casey
2009-05-08 21:49                           ` Re: Linus Torvalds
2009-05-08 23:04                             ` Re: Brandon Casey
2009-05-09 16:44                               ` Re: Linus Torvalds
2009-05-08 17:44                         ` Re: Linus Torvalds
2009-05-08 16:47               ` 'git checkout' and unlink() calls (was: Re: ) Kjetil Barvik
2009-05-08 17:57                 ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found] <TXJgqLzlM6oCfTXKSqrSBk@txt.att.net>
2023-08-09  5:12 ` Luna Jernberg
     [not found] <20220301070226.2477769-1-jaydeepjd.8914>
2022-03-06 11:10 ` Jaydeep P Das
2022-03-06 11:22   ` Jaydeep Das
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-08-21 14:40 TECOB270_Ganesh Pawar
2021-08-21 23:52 ` Jeff King
2019-11-15 16:03 Martin Nicolay
2019-11-15 16:29 ` Martin Ågren
2019-11-15 16:37   ` Re: Martin Ågren
2019-08-20 17:23 William Baker
2019-08-20 17:27 ` Yagnatinsky, Mark
2019-03-05 14:57 [GSoC][PATCH v2 3/3] t3600: use helpers to replace test -d/f/e/s <path> Eric Sunshine
2019-03-05 23:38 ` Rohit Ashiwal
2019-01-23 10:50 Christopher Hagler
2019-01-23 14:16 ` Cody Kratzer
2019-01-23 14:25   ` Re: Thomas Braun
2019-01-23 16:00   ` Re: Christopher Hagler
2019-01-23 16:35     ` Randall S. Becker
2019-01-24 17:11   ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-10-08 13:33 Netravnen
2018-10-08 13:34 ` Inderpreet Saini
2018-04-27  0:54 [PATCH v3 2/3] merge: Add merge.renames config setting Ben Peart
2018-04-27 18:19 ` Elijah Newren
2018-04-30 13:11   ` Ben Peart
2018-04-30 16:12     ` Re: Elijah Newren
2018-05-02 14:33       ` Re: Ben Peart
2018-02-27  1:18 Alan Gage
2018-02-27 10:26 ` René Scharfe
2017-11-20 15:10 Viet Nguyen
2017-11-20 20:07 ` Stefan Beller
2017-11-12  2:21 hsed
2017-11-13 18:56 ` Stefan Beller
2017-01-25  0:11 [PATCH 7/7] completion: recognize more long-options Cornelius Weig
2017-01-25  0:21 ` Stefan Beller
2017-01-25  0:43   ` Cornelius Weig
2017-01-25  0:52     ` Re: Stefan Beller
2017-01-25  0:54   ` Re: Linus Torvalds
2017-01-25  1:32     ` Re: Eric Wong
2016-04-11 19:04 (unknown), miwilliams
2016-04-12  4:33 ` Stefan Beller
2015-08-19 19:41 Re: christain147
2015-08-19 11:09 Re: christain147
2015-08-05 12:47 (unknown) Ivan Chernyavsky
2015-08-15  9:19 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-08-17 17:49   ` Re: Junio C Hamano
2015-04-08 20:44 (unknown), Mamta Upadhyay
2015-04-08 21:58 ` Thomas Braun
2015-04-09 11:27   ` Re: Konstantin Khomoutov
     [not found] <CANSxx61FaNp5SBXJ8Y+pWn0eDcunmibKR5g8rttnWGdGwEMHCA@mail.gmail.com>
2015-03-18 20:45 ` Re: Junio C Hamano
2015-03-18 21:06   ` Re: Stefan Beller
2015-03-18 21:17     ` Re: Jeff King
2015-03-18 21:28       ` Re: Jeff King
2015-03-18 21:33         ` Re: Junio C Hamano
2015-03-18 21:45           ` Re: Stefan Beller
2015-03-13  1:34 (unknown) cody.taylor
2015-03-13  2:00 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-09-08 11:36 (unknown), R. Klomp
     [not found] ` <CAOqJoqGSRUw_UT4LhqpYX-WX6AEd2ReAWjgNS76Cra-SMKw3NQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-08 14:36   ` R. Klomp
2014-09-10  0:00     ` Re: David Aguilar
2014-09-15 15:10       ` Re: R. Klomp
2014-02-06 11:54 "Sparse checkout leaves no entry on working directory" all the time on Windows 7 on Git 1.8.5.2.msysgit.0 konstunn
2014-02-06 13:20 ` Johannes Sixt
2014-02-06 19:56   ` Constantine Gorbunov
2012-06-12 21:12 (unknown), rohit sood
2012-06-12 23:51 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-11-18  5:03 Re: Anna
2009-05-11 18:57 (unknown) Don Slutz
2009-05-11 20:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-12 12:45   ` Re: Don Slutz
2009-03-30  5:03 (unknown), David Aguilar
2009-03-30  7:02 ` Markus Heidelberg
2009-03-30  8:46   ` Re: Junio C Hamano
2007-11-01 20:44 (unknown), Francesco Pretto
2007-11-01 20:48 ` Francesco Pretto
2006-02-02  0:39 [RFC & PATCH] Solaris 8: ENOSYS when mkdir applied to automount., Jason Riedy
2006-02-02  4:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-22 22:19 (unknown), atani
2005-04-22 23:16 ` Martin Schlemmer

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