From: Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:44:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Change in "git checkout" behaviour between 1.6.0.2 and 1.6.0.3
Message-ID: <80r65gon3m.fsf@tiny.isode.net>
In-Reply-To: <491B131D.2050501@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

[...]

> Bisecting gives:
>
>
> 5521883490e85f4d973141972cf16f89a79f1979 is first bad commit
> commit 5521883490e85f4d973141972cf16f89a79f1979
> Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Date:   Sun Sep 7 19:49:25 2008 -0700
>
>     checkout: do not lose staged removal

I got the same, which is reassuring.

Looks like a deliberate change with (what seems to me to be) an
unfortunate interaction with "git clone -n"