[BUG] "git checkout BRANCH -- FILE" deletes staged commits

Hi,

I suppose I found a bug in git version 2.24.0. Please consider the small shell script to reproduce.

Best,

Tasnad

#!/bin/bash # init repo, create master branch git init echo 'master' > tst git add tst git ci -m 'master'

# create branch "B" where tst contains the line from master plus a line "B" git checkout -b B echo 'B' >> tst git commit -am 'B'

# back in master: stage a change git checkout master echo 'master_dirty' >> tst git add tst echo '*** tst should contain [master, master_dirty]: ***' cat tst echo '-------------'

# checkout copies over contents from B -> I guess the bug is here, changes are not detected git checkout B -- tst git status echo '-> this seems to be wrong, change is not detected'

# if we now go to B and back to master, we loose staged changes echo '*** tst should contain [master, B]: ***' cat tst echo '-------------' git checkout B echo '*** tst should contain [master, B]: ***' cat tst echo '-------------' git checkout master echo '*** tst should contain [master, B]: ***' cat tst echo '-------------' echo '-> wrong / staged changes lost!?'