Re: Forcing rewrite of files in working tree

[Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>]

Andy Parkins wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to write a little recipe in a Makefile that ensures the $Id$ field in a 
> series of text files is correct.  In case it's relevant, I'm including a load 
> of asciidoc files as subsections into one master file; each file has a $Id$ 
> field in the header, which very nicely prints out at the start of each 
> section.  However, the $Id$ field is only written on checkout (not on checkin 
> for fairly obvious reasons).  That means that for any files I've changed, the 
> $Id$ is wrong.  Before I generate output using ASCIIdoc I'd like to ensure 
> the $Id$ is correct.
> 
> How do I do it?
> 
> 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. :-)
> 
> Andy

$ git reset --hard

?

Rogan