public inbox for git@vger.kernel.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>
To: Chunlin Zhang <zhangchunlin@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to git checkout a orgin(unstage) version file in another directoy?
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:35:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5D1603.6040208@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110217T110820-459@post.gmane.org>

Chunlin Zhang venit, vidit, dixit 17.02.2011 11:17:
> Michael J Gruber <git <at> drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>> git --work-tree=. --git-dir="/media/linux/t/kernel/.git" checkout HEAD
> But after I test,I found that after run this command,the file I do 
> checkout action become unstaged.
> It is weard,because I have set the "--work-tree" to another directory.
> my command line for example:
> git --work-tree=. --git-dir="/media/linux/t/kernel/.git" checkout 
> HEAD -- Android.mk
> 
> You can test with a git repository.I have no idea how to work around now.
> 

So, you don't really want to "checkout" the file. You only want its
contents without updating the index. (My brain is apparently too
git-rotted already to even think of the possibility that you didn't mean
"our checkout" by "checkout").

Jonathan gave you the perfect solution for what you want.

Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-17 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-17  7:00 How to git checkout a orgin(unstage) version file in another directoy? Chunlin Zhang
2011-02-17  8:26 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-17 10:03   ` Chunlin Zhang
2011-02-17 10:17   ` Chunlin Zhang
2011-02-17 12:35     ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2011-02-17 13:30       ` Chunlin Zhang
2011-02-17 18:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-18  7:41     ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-17 10:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-17 12:06   ` Chunlin Zhang
2011-02-17 17:17     ` Andreas Schwab

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4D5D1603.6040208@drmicha.warpmail.net \
    --to=git@drmicha$(echo .)warpmail.net \
    --cc=git@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
    --cc=zhangchunlin@gmail$(echo .)com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox