[OCLUG-Tech] can i "git checkout" an earlier version of a file *only* into working directory?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca>]

  another picky git question ... if i'm working with the linux kernel
source, i know i can check out an earlier version of, say, the
top-level Makefile with something like:

 $ git checkout v4.0 -- Makefile

however, that command checks out the v4.0 version of the Makefile into
both the working directory *and* the index. is there an option to
check the file out only in the working directory? it seems like a
simply variation, but i don't see a checkout option to do that. and,
yes, it's easy enough to do the checkout, then "reset" the index, but
doing it with a single checkout command would be useful.

  am i overlooking something trivial?

rday

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