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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: What I miss from Cogito...
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:38:41 -0400
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:15:48AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 2. cg-restore
>
>    Cogito separated "reset" and "restore".  This is a syntactic sugar
>    issue, but having to type "git reset --hard -- path" makes me
>    nervous, especially since hitting Enter at the wrong time could have
>    serious and irrevocable consequences.
>
>    I also note that this particular use of "git reset" is actually
>    undocumented, but it seems to work.

I didn't think "git reset --hard -- <pathame>" was valid, since it's
not documented in the man page.

I have the following in my path as "git-revert-file" (which is easier
to type and less dangerous than typing "git reset --hard -- <path>"):

#!/bin/sh
#
prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)

for i in $*
do
        git show HEAD:$prefix$i > $i
done


							- Ted