On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:33:56 -0800 (PST)
Ryan Milligan <cei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all, I’m not really sure how to quickly sum up the scenario I’m
> trying to achieve here, so this is going to run a little bit long.
>
> Basically, I’ve run into several situations where I want to be able
> to create a commit such that:
[...]
> So the question is, does something exist that can do something like
> this already? If not, do the gurus think this would be a good fit for
> a feature request?
Sorry, I have no time ATM to read through the whole message but let me
suggest to try out two things right away.
First, for individual files, you can always use `git show` + shell
redirection:
git show $someRev:path/to/file >path/to/file
would overwrite the file at path/to/file with its contents as found in
commit $someRev.
Second, you can still check your files out through the index while
simply fooling Git about where the index is located:
export GIT_INDEX_FILE=`mktemp /tmp/indexXXXXXX`
git read-tree -i -u $revA
rm -f "$GIT_INDEX_FILE"
unset GIT_INDEX_FILE
You can easily make a function out of this code and put it into your
~/.whateverrc
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