"Tim Visher" <tim.visher@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... >> (1) if you want to get rid of garbage changes in your work tree, you >> would want "git checkout $that_path"; >> >> (2) if you want to temporarily stash away further changes in your work >> tree, because you would want to first test what is staged, commit it, >> and then later continue to refine the changes stashed away thusly, >> you would want "git stash --keep-index". > ... > Unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to do this. The solution I > came up with was to go ahead and `git commit` the staged changes and > then `git checkout PATH` the just committed file to overwrite the > local edits with the version of the file I wanted. How about omitting the "git commit" and do "git checkout PATH" after you are done with the staging? IOW, (1) above. -- 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
