From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:49:22 GMT
Subject: Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-)
Message-ID: <200812301549.26538.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <gje3ok$gnc$4@ger.gmane.org>

On Tuesday 2008 December 30 15:27:33 you wrote:
> conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
> $ git status
> # On branch master
> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>
> conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
> $ git checkout versionA .
>
> conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
> $ ls
> ABC.txt  AC.txt
>
> conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
> $ rm *.*
>
> conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
> $ git checkout versionB .
>
> conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
> $ ls
> ABC.txt  AC.txt  BC.txt

Not a bug.  git checkout <commit> <paths> does not delete files by design.  
Try using "git checkout versionB" instead (no paths specified), and it will 
properly remove AC.txt from your working tree as well as warning you 
that "You're Doing It Wrong" (tm).
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