Chunlin Zhang venit, vidit, dixit 17.02.2011 11:17: > Michael J Gruber <git <at> drmicha.warpmail.net> writes: > >> git --work-tree=. --git-dir="/media/linux/t/kernel/.git" checkout HEAD > But after I test,I found that after run this command,the file I do > checkout action become unstaged. > It is weard,because I have set the "--work-tree" to another directory. > my command line for example: > git --work-tree=. --git-dir="/media/linux/t/kernel/.git" checkout > HEAD -- Android.mk > > You can test with a git repository.I have no idea how to work around now. > So, you don't really want to "checkout" the file. You only want its contents without updating the index. (My brain is apparently too git-rotted already to even think of the possibility that you didn't mean "our checkout" by "checkout"). Jonathan gave you the perfect solution for what you want. Michael -- 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