Hi, On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2008.06.25 10:22:08 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > I used to argue for this, but gave up, because no one seemed to agree > > > with me. So now I just have the following in > > > /home/tytso/bin/git-revert-file and I am very happy: > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > # > > > prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix) > > > > > > for i in $* > > > do > > > git show HEAD:$prefix$i > $i > > > done > > > > Isn't that this? > > > > #!/bin/sh > > exec git checkout HEAD -- "$@" > > I thought so at first, too, but there's one difference. Ted's version > doesn't affect the index, while yours does. Of course I cannot tell if > Ted actually intended not to touch the index ;-) While we are nit-picking: Ted's version does not respect autocrlf, while Junio's does. Oh, and Junio's version works with spaces and other funny stuff in file names, while Ted's does not. Oh, and error checking is correct in Junio's version. I am sure there are more differences. Ciao, Dscho