On 11/1/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes: >> I would prefer "git update-index --reset frotz" or "git checkout >> --index HEAD frotz". git ls-tree|git update-index is too cryptic for >> me and too long for my fingers. > > Then perhaps you can use "git checkout HEAD frotz", which is the > simplest? Sorry, Oops. One should never respond to a message in an ancient thread unless one has enough time to revisit previous messages and refresh one's memory. The original topic was about updating the index entry without touching working tree, so "co HEAD path" would not do what was wanted. I think at the UI level, the most appropriate place would be "git reset". Checkout is a Porcelainish that is primarily about working tree and it updates the index as a side effect (from the UI point of view); you can update the working tree without modifying index or you can update both index and the working tree, but updating only index and not working tree does not belong there.
Then perhaps git-reset should do "co HEAD path" too if --index is not specified? To sum up: - git reset HEAD path -> git checkout HEAD path - git reset --index HEAD path -> git-ls-files HEAD path|git update-index --index-info - git reset HEAD (without path) -> the current behaviour Because <commit-ish> may be missing, there is some ambiguation here. -- Duy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html