From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5•se>
To: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce•org>
Cc: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Restore a single file in the index back to HEAD
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:08:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4541BE8E.5050605@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061027073834.GC29057@spearce.org>
Shawn Pearce wrote:
> Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail•com> wrote:
>> However, it led me to wonder what the inverse of git-update-index is.
>
> git-update-index :-)
>
> You can use something like:
>
> git ls-tree HEAD oops/file1 | git update-index --index-info
>
> to restore the index state of oops/file1.
>
>
> Which leads us to the always interesting, fun and exciting:
>
> git ls-tree -r HEAD | git update-index --index-info
>
> which will undo everything except 'git add' from the index, as
> ls-tree -r is listing everything in the last commit.
>
... and also shows The Power of the Pipe, which Daniel@google was
missing in recent versions of git. ;-)
Btw, this is most definitely not a documented thing and requires a bit
of core git knowledge, so perhaps the "shell-scripts were good for
hackers to learn what to pipe where" really *is* a very important point.
--
Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5•se
OP5 AB www.op5.se
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-27 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-26 15:41 Restore a single file in the index back to HEAD Andy Parkins
2006-10-26 15:42 ` Alex Riesen
2006-10-27 7:27 ` Andy Parkins
2006-10-27 7:38 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-27 8:01 ` Andy Parkins
2006-10-27 8:08 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2006-10-27 8:15 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-27 9:45 ` Alex Riesen
2006-10-27 9:50 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-10-27 10:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-27 17:45 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-11-01 7:58 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2006-11-01 8:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-01 8:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-01 9:09 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2006-11-01 11:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-01 9:38 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-01 8:39 ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-01 8:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-01 9:53 ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-01 18:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-01 20:29 ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-01 20:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-01 21:18 ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-01 22:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-01 23:09 ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-01 23:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-02 8:44 ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-01 22:27 ` Robin Rosenberg
2006-11-02 12:47 ` Salikh Zakirov
2006-10-27 9:03 ` [PATCH] Added description for inverting git-update-index using --index-info Andy Parkins
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