Re: git annoyances: how to force git to fetch a particular file

[Mike McCormack]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> Sigh, I guess I'll just have to keep blowing away my git tree every
> few days... shame I'm not smart enough to use 'git fetch' properly.

Well, if you want to do it in a bit of a round about way:

git diff-index -p HEAD > foo.diff
patch -p1 -R < foo.diff
vi foo.diff   #remove bits you don't want
patch -p1 < foo.diff

I find the above useful for getting rid of things like whitespace 
changes or debugging messages I've added when preparing to commit 
something to my tree.

Mike