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From: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
To: "Dirk Süsserott" <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Cc: Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Resetting working files
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 18:25:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090531162515.GB8129@m62s10.vlinux.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A229B9A.6060807@dirk.my1.cc>

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 05:00:42PM +0200, Dirk Süsserott wrote:
> Am 31.05.2009 15:09 schrieb Aaron Gray:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How do I reset the working files back to HEAD ?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Aaron
>>

[...]

> To revert only a single file, use
>
> $ git checkout -- path/to/file
>

This will only reset the file content to the version in the index.
E.g. 

	echo modified >> a.txt
	git add a.txt
	git checkout -- a.txt           (1)

	git checkout HEAD -- a.txt	(2)


(1) This will do nothing to your file 'a.txt' in your workdir because
    the index and the workdir are identical

(2) This will reset your file to the state before you run that bogus
    echo modified >> a.txt   comand

Greetings,
Peter

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-31 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-31 13:09 Resetting working files Aaron Gray
2009-05-31 15:00 ` Dirk Süsserott
2009-05-31 15:57   ` Aaron Gray
2009-05-31 16:25   ` Peter Baumann [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20090531163225.GE3674@debian.b2j>
2009-05-31 16:50       ` Aaron Gray
2009-05-31 17:39         ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2009-05-31 19:31           ` Aaron Gray
2009-05-31 21:30           ` Alex Riesen

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