Re: [PATCH 9/9] Build in checkout

> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > I suggested that: to prevent the index from needing an update.
> > 
> > This is quite important if you have a large working tree, and switch 
> > branches from A to B.  For example, "make" will punish you where it 
> > hurts.
> 
> This isn't used for switching branches; this is used for checking out 
> paths. If you do "git checkout <not-head> -- <every single path>", make 
> will punish you, but why would you do that? I'd guess that people are 
> unlikely to have a significant number of non-changes in this piece of 
> code, just because they wouldn't list things that they didn't think had 
> changes.