RE:

From: david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm>
Date: May 7, 2009, 23:07 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0905071607080.15782@asgard>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0905071553570.4983@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Thu, 7 May 2009, david@lang.hm wrote:
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>> even with this a git checkout -f should replace all files, correct?
>
> Hmm. I don't think so.
>
> As far as I recall, "-f" only overrides certain errors (like unmerged
> files or not up-to-date content), it doesn't change behavior wrt files
> that git thinks are already up-to-date.

what about a reset --hard? (is there any command that would force the files to be re-written, no matter what git thinks is already there)

David Lang