Git: How to remove file from index without deleting files from any repository

Question

When you use

git rm --cached myfile

it doesn\'t delete from the local filesystem, which is the goal. But if you\'ve already versioned and c

Answer 1

My solution is to pull on the other working copy and then do:

git log --pretty="format:" --name-only -n1 | xargs git checkout HEAD^1

which says get all the file paths in the latest comment, and check them out from the parent of HEAD. Job done.