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Subject: Re: About detached heads
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:11:33 -0700 (PDT)
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> AFAIK the porcelain equivalent to plumbing
> 
>   git read-tree -u -m 3
> 
> is just
> 
>   git checkout 3 -- .

Hi Jakub,

   git checkout .   won't remove paths, so you could end up with extra
state that didn't exist in the earlier commit.

Sean