Built-in checkout: wrong behaviour in subdirectories

From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date: Feb 20, 2008, 22:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20080220223520.GA23642@localhost>

Hi,

The following test shows a problem since commit 782c2d6 (Build in checkout):

mkdir testrep cd testrep git init

: >file1 git add file1 git commit -m 'initial'

git branch dev

mkdir dir1 cd dir1 # this creates dir1/file1 git checkout dev

Regards, Clemens

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