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From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: Re: Howto update a 'dirty' entry in the cache from the object database
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 21:20:02 +0200
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Hello,

> 	# read a new index file with the HEAD information
> 	GIT_INDEX_FILE=tmp-index git-read-tree HEAD

> 	# check out just the one file you want to have
> 	GIT_INDEX_FILE=tmp-index git-checkout-cache -f filename

> 	# remove the now useless temporary index
> 	rm tmp-index

> 	# update your _real_ index file with the file information
> 	git-update-cache filename

thanks. That is exactly what I was looking for.

	Thomas