git reset --hard ? On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there a variant of “git checkout-index” which will produce the > existing index contents, like “git checkout-index” would do with an > empty directory, but can reuse an existing directory tree, to avoid > writing all files from scratch? > > I'm writing some analysis scripts which need to change a checked-out > working tree. Right now I'm throwing away the tree after making the > changes and create the next tree (which is expected to be quite similar > in contents) from scratch, starting with an empty directory. This is > quite slow. > > Thanks, > Florian -- - DML