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Re: checkout extra files

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ABAngelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 4, 2012, 13:24 UTC
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Hi Duy,

the semantics of "git checkout -- '*'" is quite clear because there is no expansion done by the shell. The wildcard is passed to git checkout, that interprets is properly.

That of "git checkout -- *" is the problem when the directory is empty. Note that this happens with the shell that is shipped with git (in the windows distro). A note in the documentation could help the user to understand this.

-Angelo
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  19. Jeff KingSep 10, 2012
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  21. 1/2 gitcli: formatting fixJunio C Hamano, Sep 10, 2012
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  23. Jeff KingSep 10, 2012
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