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From: "Jike Song" <albcamus@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How make "git checkout <commit> <file>" *not* alter index?
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:17:16 +0800
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:18 PM,  <chris@seberino.org> wrote:
> I want to pull an old version of a file into my local directory and make it
> appear like work I haven't added to index yet...
>
>
> So how modify
>
>
> git checkout <commit> <file>
>
> to do this?

I have a stupid way to do this:

 $ git show v2.6.12:Makefile > Makefile
 $ git diff --cached  /* no outputs */

Ugly but seems work.

-- 
Thanks,
Jike