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Re: Fwd: Re: git checkout -f branch doesn't remove extra files

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Aug 13, 2005, 05:33 UTC
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On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Git actually has a _lot_ of nifty tools. I didn't realize that people 
> didn't know about such basic stuff as "git-tar-tree" and "git-ls-files".

Btw, I just checked that git-tar-tree is documented and has a man-page. It does. However, that man-page attributes authorship to me, which is wrong. git-tar-tree was written by Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>.

Don't know how many other man-pages say I wrote something just because people copied another man-page around. Worth fixing, though.

		Linus
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