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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
May 7, 2009, 23:00 UTC
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On Thu, 7 May 2009, david@lang.hm wrote:
> 
> 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.

But I didn't check.
		Linus
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