On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote about 'Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]': >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> "git checkout <branch> <paths>" is similar to "hg revert -r <branch> >> <paths>", > >No it is not. > >The form of the command is makes this request: > > Please look into that named <tree-ish>, and check out the named > <paths> out of it to my work tree. That seems similar to "hg revert": Using the -r option, revert the given files or directories to their contents as of a specific revision. > Because the reason I want them in > my work tree is so that I can include them as part of the next commit > I am preparing to create in the index, please update these paths in > my index while at it. This part is odd to me, but does make some sense. I can only think of a few reasons to retrieve a file from a different tree-ish without immediately turning around and doing "git add <bar>". -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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