Re: checkout extra files

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 4, 2012, 10:14 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8C36eghwEOYqbnd2z5C5KnynWsvwMDa4e2hns3uW243EQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd322ebsz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Perhaps like this?

Looks good. I was going to complain that this patch applied to git-checkout.txt only but I just saw git-add.txt also mentions about quoting wildcards. So I'm good.

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> diff --git i/Documentation/git-checkout.txt w/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
> index 63a2516..e7272b6 100644
> --- i/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
> +++ w/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
> @@ -360,20 +360,32 @@ mistake, and gets it back from the index.
>  $ git checkout master             <1>
>  $ git checkout master~2 Makefile  <2>
>  $ rm -f hello.c
>  $ git checkout hello.c            <3>
>  ------------
>  +
>  <1> switch branch
>  <2> take a file out of another commit
>  <3> restore hello.c from the index
>  +
> +If you want to check out _all_ C source files out of the index,
> +you can say
> ++
> +------------
> +$ git checkout -- '*.c'
> +------------
> ++
> +Note the quotes around '*.c'.  'hello.c' will also be checked
> +out, even though it is no longer in the working tree, because
> +the pathspec is used to match entries in the index (not in the
> +working tree by your shell).
> ++
>  If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this
>  step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch.
>  You should instead write:
>  +
>  ------------
>  $ git checkout -- hello.c
>  ------------
>
>  . After working in the wrong branch, switching to the correct
>  branch would be done using:

-- 
Duy