Hi, I have been looking for such a command/option and no one gave me sufficient answer. So this message should be considered as a feature request. I had a situation where I had staged a file with a problem solution in it, then I wanted to experiment with a different solution so I had to revert the file to its HEAD state and I couldn't find a way that preserves the staged state of that file. More discussions: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/git-users/nYiN-rE_3i0 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16335799/git-porcelain-command-to-revert-a-single-file-to-its-head-state-but-keep-its-sta Regards, Dimitar Bonev -- 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