Re: checkout extra files

> Hello,
>
> the man page of git checkout states:
>
> git checkout [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...
>
> It updates the named paths in the working tree from the index file or
> from a named <tree-ish> ...
>
> This means that for each file denoted by pathspec, git tries to
> restore it from the tree-ish.
> However, it seems that git does more than this: it restores also files
> that are not denoted
> by pathspec.
> This sequence of commands shows it:
>
> $ mkdir gittest
> $ cd gittest
> $ git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in d:/gittest/.git/
> $ touch f1
> $ git add f1
> $ git commit commit -m "first commit"
> [master (root-commit) 94d882a] first commit
>  0 files changed
>  create mode 100644 f1
> $ rm f1
> $ git checkout 94d8 -- *
> $ ls
> f1
>
> Note that the work directory is empty when the checkout is done, and
> that the checkout restores f1
> in it, a file that is not denoted by the * pathspec.