I have a large git project that I, stupidly, imported to eclipse and ran an autoformat on. Now, every file in the project is showing as modified. Rather than commit my formatted files, I would rather revert all the files that I have only been formatted and not had other changes. For instance:

$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#   (commit or discard the untracked or modified content in submodules)

#     modified: dir/file1.cpp
#     modified: dir/file1.h
#     modified: dir/file2.cpp
#     modified: dir/file2.h
#     modified: dir/file3.cpp
#     modified: dir/file3.h
#     modified: dir/file4.cpp
#     modified: dir/file4.h

I know that file2.cpp, file2.h, and file3.cpp have been modified with content (i.e., not just formatted). I want to stash the changes to these three files and then checkout an old revision, so that I can reapply the changes to these files after. I would rather avoid something like:

$ cp file2.cpp ~/tmp
$ git checkout blahblahblah
$ cp ~/tmp/file2.cpp .

If there's an obvious way to do this that doesnt involve stashing, let me know. whatever gets the job done.

git git-stash
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