Re: About detached heads

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:11:33 -0700 (PDT)
Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

AFAIK the porcelain equivalent to plumbing

  git read-tree -u -m 3

is just

  git checkout 3 -- .

Hi Jakub,

   git checkout .   won't remove paths, so you could end up with extra
state that didn't exist in the earlier commit.

Sean