On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 06:21:02PM +0000, Luciano Rocha wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 01:38:41PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I use git checkout path ...
> 
> Isn't that the same thing?

Yes, it does the same. Note there is unfortunately no shorthand for
git show $arbitrary_commit:$path > $path

Mike
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