git checkout no longer warning about uncommitted/untracked files!

I found some other posts that seem to indicate that this is the right place to file bug reports for git. If this is wrong, please let me know the proper method. We are using git version 1.7.3. We just noticed that git checkout no longer warns about uncommitted/untracked files and just deletes them!!! I had a developer lose a lot of work today because they were not committing regularly (which they will do now), and because I told them to perform the checkout believing that it would do as it has always done, and warn about their modified and untracked new files. I believe this is a bug. Is it fixed in a later release already? If so, which release? You guys really need to get a bug tracking system like Jira to allow the git user community to file bugs and feature requests!!!! Thanks for your help.

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