On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 05:36:06AM -0700, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > is there an option to check the file out only in the working
> > directory?
>
> Not as far as I know, but if you're only doing single files;
>
> git show v4.0:Makefile > Makefile
i knew that little hack ... i guess i'm a little surprised that
there's no straightforward to do it since (at least to me), checking
out an earlier version of a file into *just* the WD is more
intuitively natural than into both the WD and the index.
rday
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