Re: [RFC] git checkout $tree -- $path always rewrites files

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Is there a reason that we don't use this diff technique for checkout?
> 
> I suspect that the reasons are probably mixture of these:
> 
>  (1) the code path may descend from checkout-index and predates the
>      in-core diff machinery;
> 
>  (2) in the context of checkout-index, it was more desirable to be
>      able to say "I want the contents on the filesystem, even if you
>      think I already have it there, as you as a new software are
>      likely to be wrong and I know better"; or
> 
>  (3) it was easier to code that way ;-)
> 
> I do not see there is any reason not to do what you suggest.