Dimitar Bonev <dsbonev@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 Is that a common enough issue to warrant a better solution than git show HEAD:targetfile > targetfile which is how we would do it? Or more likely, git commit -m WIP git revert -n HEAD which is safer anyway, since it doesn't lose the formerly-staged state so easily (you have the reflog in case of any mistakes). -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- 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