From: Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:31:17 GMT
Subject: git checkout -f branch doesn't remove extra files
Message-ID: <B8E391BBE9FE384DAA4C5C003888BE6F04214AC7@scsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>

I've just got around to noticing some of the new (to
me) features in git, and started experimenting with
branches.

I see that when I switch view to a different
branch with:

	$ git checkout -f someoldbranch

that any files that exist in my previous branch view
but not in "someoldbranch" are not deleted.  I can
find and remove them easily with:

	$ git-ls-files --others | xargs rm -f

but I wondered whether this was a deliberate choice
(to avoid clobbering .o files etc. for people who
have run a make in their tree).

Currently git-ls-files doesn't have a way to specify
a branch ... but it it did, the something like:

	comm -1 <(git-ls-files -b oldbranch) \
		  <(git-ls-files -b newbranch) | xargs rm -f

would clean up the spurious files.

-Tony