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