[Vm-dev] Script needed; git mavens can you help?

[Damien Pollet]

To complete Tobias's answer, git checkout HEAD -- <files> will restore
files from the most recent commit even if changes were staged.

In what situation do you use that script?

People on stack overflow seem to have pretty polarized opinions about
fiddling with timestamps… one of the answers has something close, but there
might be a simpler way…
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1964470/whats-the-equivalent-of-use-commit-times-for-git



On 20 June 2016 at 22:40, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi git mavens,
>
>     I've used a script called svnrevert in the svn version that reverts
> any changed file in its argument(s), which may be directories, /and/ sets
> the modification date to the date at which the file was last checked in.
> I'd like the same functionality in git.  Her'es the subversion version:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # Revert file(s) or all modified files in a directory
> # and touch them back to the checkin date
> for f in "$@"
> do
> if [ -d "$f" ]; then
> $0 `svn st "$f" | grep "^M" | sed 's/^M *//'`
> else
> if svn revert "$f"; then
> changed="`svn info \"$f\" | grep 'Last Changed Date:' | sed 's/ *(.*//'`"
> touch -t "`date -j -f 'Last Changed Date: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z'
> \"$changed\" '+%Y%m%d%H%M.%S'`" "$f"
> fi
> fi
> done
>
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
>
>


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