Re: Forcing rewrite of files in working tree

[Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>]

On Friday 2007 August 03, Rogan Dawes wrote:

> > The only method I've found is to delete the file in the work tree then do
> > git-checkout again.  Even with -f, if the file is not changed git doesn't
> > perform a checkout again, so git-checkout -f is not sufficient.  I assume
> > I can do what I want with some clever plumbing, but I don't know any
> > plumbing. :-)
>
> $ git reset --hard

I think that that suffers the same as "git-checkout -f"; if it doesn't see 
changes then it doesn't reread.  Also, it's not possible to do per-file:

$ git reset --hard HEAD somefile.txt
Cannot do partial --hard reset.

Which is a necessity really; I don't want to accidentally overwrite work 
that's not yet checked in in the rest of the tree.

Is git-checkout-index the thing I'm looking for?  I'm wondering if the "-n" 
switch is the trick?


Andy
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