Re: .git and retrieving full source tree for own project(s)

> In this case, your "delete everything" is your local change, and git did
> its best to preserve it while switching branches.
>
> If you want to "copy this and that files and directories out of the
> commit at the tip of the current branch and deposit them in my work tree
> and index", you would say
>
>    $ git checkout HEAD this that
>
> so a request for checking everything out would be a natural extension of
> the above that would be:
>
>    $ git checkout HEAD .
>
> If you want to "copy this and that files and directories out of the index
> and deposit them in my work tree", you would say
>
>    $ git checkout this that
>
>