Git reset files with typechange status

Question

When finding and replacing across a large repository, I get a bunch of files with a typechange status. These are mostly symlinks.

Rather than

git checkout -- eachfile.name

Is there a way to reset only typechange files?

Answer 1

git status | grep typechange | awk '{print $2}' | xargs git checkout 

Answer 2

Flavor of the existing answer, but I prefer it:

git status --porcelain | awk '{if ($1=="T") print $2}' | xargs git checkout

--porcelain is designed for this kind of use.

Note that this awk answer and the existing answer can be broken with filenames containing spaces, linefeeds, etc in which case we can use.

git status -z | perl -0 -ne 'print $1 if /^\s*T\s*(.+)$/s' | xargs -0 git checkout

git status -z is the one really recommended for this kind of use and null terminates each entry. perl's -0 deals with that ,-ne processes the given command for each line (or "entry" really). $1 refers to the first capture group here, which will include the file name and null terminator.