From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:45:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] Build in checkout
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802052244160.8543@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0802051716220.13593@iabervon.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> 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.

For convenience, you can also say

	$ git checkout -- <path>

and expect checkout to not really touch the unchanged files.

Ciao,
Dscho