From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:44:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-checkout: allow pathspec to recover lost working tree directory
Message-ID: <20061117154459.GF7201@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqn8msuw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:07:19PM CET, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh
> index eb28b29..737abd0 100755
> --- a/git-checkout.sh
> +++ b/git-checkout.sh
> @@ -112,7 +112,11 @@ Did you intend to checkout '$@' which ca
>  		git-ls-tree --full-name -r "$new" "$@" |
>  		git-update-index --index-info || exit $?
>  	fi
> -	git-checkout-index -f -u -- "$@"
> +
> +	# Make sure the request is about existing paths.
> +	git-ls-files --error-unmatch -- "$@" >/dev/null || exit
> +	git-ls-files -- "$@" |
> +	git-checkout-index -f -u --stdin
>  	exit $?
>  else
>  	# Make sure we did not fall back on $arg^{tree} codepath

Wouldn't it be better to fix git-checkout-index to checkout a whole
directory if specified?

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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