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From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: index manipulation -- how?
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--- Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> I thought what you originally wanted to do was revert only index
> without losing your changes from the working tree, so just to
> make sure, the above does _not_ do it --- the named file in the
> working tree is also reverted to the one from <tree-ish>.

Exactly what I want.

Thanks,
   Luben
P.S. I figured this one out in three stages:
Since checked out files are in rw- mode, but unchecked
files simply do not exist, first I want to "revert"
a changed file in the working tree -- this one is easy.
Then the second stage is if also the index is updated
(but no commit), and the last stage is if also
there is a commit, for which I think I know what to use.