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How to checkout a file [message #1239912]

Wed, 05 February 2014 10:10

David Pérez

Messages: 228
Registered: July 2009

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I'm quite new to git and jgit.

I wonder how I can revert a file not yet commited.

Whith git command line I can do:

git checkout -- file

but with org.eclipse.jgit.pgm-3.2.0.201312181205-r.sh, this syntax doesn't work, as it only expects a branch name as argument, and not a filename.

Thanks in advance for any tip.

[Updated on: Wed, 05 February 2014 11:34]

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Re: How to checkout a file [message #1240001 is a reply to message #1239912]

Wed, 05 February 2014 13:50

R Shapiro

Messages: 386
Registered: June 2011

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My understanding is that JGit is primarily for programatic use: If you have a Java application that needs to checkout a different version of a given file in a Git repository, the JGit jar will provide what you need to do that. The EGit plugin uses JGit in this way.

The JGit command-line script is somewhat secondary. It covers only a subset of the supported operations, and only a few variants of each. For general command-line access to a Git repository, with all the options, you should be using standard Git.

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Re: How to checkout a file [message #1240055 is a reply to message #1239912]

Wed, 05 February 2014 15:58

Matthias Sohn

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Registered: July 2009

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This isn't yet implemented in the command line client, the underlying porcelain API command CheckoutCommand
already supports this. I'll come up with a patch to implement this.

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