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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Neal Kreitzinger" <neal@rsss.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can I checkout a single file without altering index?
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:02:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zkufcma2.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i9a6kn$d7o$1@dough.gmane.org> (Neal Kreitzinger's message of "Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:30:06 -0500")

"Neal Kreitzinger" <neal@rsss.com> writes:

> 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, but no one 
> seems to do this or recommend doing this as normative practice.  None the 
> less, this "exception" in the git-commit manpage does seem to set the 
> precedent, so maybe it is also conceivable to copy objects directly from the 
> object-store to the work-tree by totally bypassing the index.

You can always do "git cat-file blob <object>", though you have to
redirect output manually.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-15 19:02 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
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 [this message]
2010-10-15 23:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-15 23:40         ` Jonathan Nieder

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