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Bug 337285

Summary:	Should be able to replace a file / folder / project with a particular commit without moving HEAD
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	James Blackburn <jamesblackburn+eclipse>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	pwebster, robin, stefan.lay
Version:	0.11
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
Whiteboard:

Description James Blackburn

2011-02-16 04:35:07 EST

There's no support for replacing the contents of a file with the contents in another branch / tag / commit without also moving the HEAD.  The equivalent of git checkout -- <paths> 

Like CVS there could be a "Get Contents" action in the history view, and also hang off of context menu > Replace With > Commit / Tag.

The term checkout is overloaded in cgit and it would be good if the UI made the distinction between moving HEAD and just replacing file contents.

Comment 1 Stefan Lay

2011-02-21 09:27:36 EST

First Step "Replace With HEAD" is in review: http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,2415

Comment 2 Robin Stocker

2012-10-20 17:56:15 EDT

This has been fixed for some time, see bug 326638.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 326638 ***