On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Kirill Müller <kirill.muel...@ivt.baug.ethz.ch> wrote: > I can't find a neat way to "git reset --hard" a subdirectory of a checkout > without reading in directories or files which are excluded by a sparse > checkout. This has been asked on StackOverflow in greater detail, but the > "right" answer is still missing: http://stackoverflow.com/q/15404535/946850 > > The options I see are: > > - git checkout . (will restore excluded directories) > > - git reset --hard (won't accept a path argument) > > - git diff | patch -R (awkward)
Another way is git diff --name-only -z|xargs -0 git checkout > What's the proper way to do this in Git? I think adding --sparse to git checkout may be more user-friendly. And it looks like a simple change. I'll make a patch soon (I need some time to recall how sparse checkout interacts with git-checkout). -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
