Hi, what is the standard/recommended way for updating a file to given version? I was familiar with "git checkout revision -- file". But it updates both working tree and index. I had some changes in index (staged) and "git checkout HEAD -- file" silently overwritten it. Well, probably my mistake, it's documented. After searching a bit I found "git show revision:file > file". But it's problematic: 1. works only for 1 file. "git show revision -- file" does something else 2. requires full path, so you need to specify "git show revision:relative/to/top/dir/file" If there's no other easy way, maybe we could add "--no-index" to checkout: "git checkout --no-index revision -- file" (or similar - maybe use options from git-reset). My use case: I had some changes prepared in index and wanted to compare the prepared version with some older version. The file was a zip file plus we use LFS so there was no other way than to "checkout" the file, unpack it and diff it. -- Piotr Krukowiecki
