RE: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]

From: Conor Rafferty <conor.rafferty@altmore.co.uk>
Date: Dec 31, 2008, 02:22 UTC
Message-ID: <BB5F02FD3789B54E8964D38D6775E718242D36@ALTMORE-SVR.altmore.local>

MERCURIAL:

Update hg update [-C] [-d DATE] [[-r] REV]

Update the repository's working directory (the "working copy") to the specified revision of the repository or to the tip revision of the current (named) branch if no revision is specified.

> I'm not looking for much....

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Whiteside [mailto:jeff.m.whiteside@gmail.com] 
Sent: 31 December 2008 02:22
To: Daniel Barkalow
Cc: Conor Rafferty; Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.; git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows
and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]

wtf is wrong with

git checkout <something>

??

if you must have

git checkout <something> <paths>

then instead use

git checkout <something> <paths> git clean

but you will lose other files that aren't part of the repo but are still in the project's dir (i.e. untracked files).

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Conor Rafferty wrote:
>
>> I don't understand, sorry. I thought I'd already removed all files 
>> from the local tree, in the $ rm *.* move just above the checkout
>
> That removes them from the filesystem, but they're still in the index.

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> And "git checkout <something> ." first gets everything that *is* in 
> "." in <something> into the index, and then gets everything from "." 
> in the index into the filesystem.
>
> I suppose it is questionable as to whether it ought to copy paths that

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> aren't in versionA from the index into the filesystem.
>
> To see this in a bit more detail, do:
>
> $ rm *.*
> $ git status
> (notice that the deletes are in the "won't be committed" section)
>
> Now, "git checkout <path>" will discard any changes in the "won't be 
> committed" section for that path. Maybe "git checkout versionA <path>"
> should only discard changes that are in the "won't be committed" 
> section for filenames that match that path and are in versionA (or are
> *different* in versionA and not removed?), but I think it's an area 
> where, if you're expecting any particular behavior out of that 
> command, you're likely to be surprised in some way in some situation.
>
>        -Daniel
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