Re: What's in git.git

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

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"Junio" == Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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But this wastes a commit.  Is there any way to get an index that simply
includes the file from that other branch?

Junio>         $ git checkout master
Junio>         $ git checkout next git-cvsimport.perl

Yow.  How simple is *that*?  Thanks.

There is one thing you would want to be careful about.
This updates the index.

Yes. Btw, I've been bitten by that. I think it might be better to _not_ 
update the index when we check out a file from another branch than the one 
we're on (or rather, we should perhaps update the index with the value 
from the current branch every time, even though the _working_tree_ is 
updated from another branch)

		Linus