Bryan Turner <bturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> If you populated $GIT_DIR/index from the tree of HEAD, you would see >> everything is deleted in the working tree. You can simulate it by >> doing this: >> >> git clone -n $over_there here >> cd here >> git read-tree HEAD >> git status >> >> But it would not help people who want to check another branch out >> immediately after cloning with -n, which is the whole point of the >> option, so... > > Is the reset call in my example in essence performing that same read-tree, > when it unstages the changes? "git reset" (without any other parameters) reads the HEAD tree into the index without touching the working tree, so I think it is probably equivalent. -- 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