From: Steve Heyns <notzippy@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 06:15:52 GMT
Subject: "git checkout" resets modified files
Message-ID: <CANDob0LdQpoSfsedPK_yhNunXBvNTc9L1zKOM9h8dBUDePs0kg@mail.gmail.com>

"git checkout" resets modified files

Version git  2.5.0,

Description:
I was automating a process that would pull and switch to another
branch when I stumbled across this. I have not been able to emulate
this from command line but using go (or I imagine other languages are
similar) if you execute a command like

exec.Command("git","checkout","")

A checkout with the branch parameter but the branch parameter is empty.

The result is git resets the the repository, modified files are reset
back to original state without warning.

I would expect the behavior should be the same as a "git checkout" command

Has anyone else seen something like this ? For myself the solution was
to simply suppress passing in the revision as a third argument if the
revision was empty. But this does appear to be an off behavior.

Thanks
Nz