On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Andres Freund wrote:
>> Hi Alvaro,
>>
>> On 05/09/2009 12:26 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>>> Perhaps a more difficult problem is that there is no easy way to update
>>>> a single file within a git repo. In cvs or svn, if I blow something up
>>>> on a particular file and I just want to take a fresh look, I just rm;svn
>>>> update.
>>> Hmm, you should use "git revert" for that (same with SVN actually).
>> Uh. Unfortunately not. git revert is for reverting the effects of an
>> earlier commit, not a working copy difference.
>
> Thanks for the clarification :-)
>
> So how do you revert WC changes? At least I got the SVN part right --
> which is not surprising because that's the one I actually use. Oh, and
> monotone uses 'revert' for the WC meaning too (the other one does not
> really make much sense to me, but so does git as a whole)
>
> (You can't be serious that for reverting a WC file to the repository
> state you use "git checkout"?)
Yes, that's right. I found that a bit odd too, but it's really not
bad once you get used to it.
If you want to blow away ALL your changes, you can use "git reset
--hard". If you want to remove all the untracked files from your
working tree, you can use "git clean".
...Robert
