From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Neal Kreitzinger" <neal@rsss.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can I checkout a single file without altering index?
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:02:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zkufcma2.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i9a6kn$d7o$1@dough.gmane.org> (Neal Kreitzinger's message of "Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:30:06 -0500")
"Neal Kreitzinger" <neal@rsss.com> writes:
> However, there is an option in git-commit to copy files directly from the
> working-tree to the object-store by totally bypassing the index, but no one
> seems to do this or recommend doing this as normative practice. None the
> less, this "exception" in the git-commit manpage does seem to set the
> precedent, so maybe it is also conceivable to copy objects directly from the
> object-store to the work-tree by totally bypassing the index.
You can always do "git cat-file blob <object>", though you have to
redirect output manually.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-15 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-12 10:03 Can I checkout a single file without altering index? Christian Halstrick
2010-10-12 10:19 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-10-12 11:14 ` Stefan Naewe
2010-10-13 17:09 ` Jared Hance
2010-10-12 15:39 ` Alex Riesen
2010-10-12 16:39 ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-10-14 8:03 ` Christian Halstrick
2010-10-15 18:30 ` Neal Kreitzinger
2010-10-15 18:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-15 18:55 ` Jeff King
2010-10-15 19:32 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-15 19:48 ` Jeff King
2010-10-15 18:57 ` Neal Kreitzinger
2010-10-15 19:02 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2010-10-15 23:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-15 23:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
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