Re: Can I checkout a single file without altering index?

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:03, Christian Halstrick
[off-list ref] wrote:

Can I checkout a certain file to a specific revision without also adding this
content to the index? I only want to alter the working-tree - no modification of
index or HEAD needed.

"git show <revision-specification>:path/name > path/name" ?