Jeff King wrote: > Sorry, I don't quite understand. You want to check out some subset of > files, but you don't know which subset? Yeah, I should elaborate a little. I'm using a script to automatically update a website with the contents of a Git repository at a specified interval. While I could use git pull, I've been told that it's safer to do a git fetch, and then a git reset --hard remotes/master, because the former could trigger a merge and on a live website that is NOT desirable. Unfortunately, since Git touches all files on a reset --hard, it's causing problems with the smart cache system, which checks whether or not the cache file is older than the source file, and regenerating if it is. Cheers, Edward -- 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