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From: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
To: "Gustav Hållberg" <gustav@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about removing changes from the index
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 15:09:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090206140911.GC31491@atjola.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1e915350902060557m5a67eba0q819c2ba2a0a49c21@mail.gmail.com>

On 2009.02.06 14:57:35 +0100, Gustav Hållberg wrote:
> I'm wondering if there's anyone who can recommend a smart way to
> "reset" the index entry for individual files to the contents of HEAD,
> in effect, removing any previous change between HEAD and the index
> (for those files).

Believe it or not, it's "git reset" ;-)

git reset -- file

You can only reset the index entry for that file to some older version,
e.g. "git reset HEAD~5 -- file".

Björn

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-06 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-06 13:57 Question about removing changes from the index Gustav Hållberg
2009-02-06 14:09 ` Björn Steinbrink [this message]
2009-02-06 14:51   ` Gustav Hållberg
2009-02-06 14:11 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-02-06 14:14 ` Sitaram Chamarty

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