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Re: checkout extra files

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 4, 2012, 16:49 UTC
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Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com> writes:
> That of "git checkout -- *" is the problem when the directory is empty.
> Note that this happens with the shell that is shipped with git (in the
> windows distro). A note in the documentation could help the user
> to understand this.

Passing unmatched glob intact to the program has always been the standard behaviour of shells for decades, and is not specific to "the shell that is shipped with msysgit", no?

I would imagine that msysgit could be shipped with man pages for bash, but I doubt anybody would consult it when hitting this "I typed * in an empty directory" situation. In any case, what to include in the package is something msysgit folks to decide.

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