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Re: [BUG?] git checkout $commit -- somedir doesn't drop files

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 20, 2013, 22:54 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>      But I think that points to a larger problem, which is that we do
>      not want to just look at the entries that are different between the
>      tree and the index.

True. The unpack-trees API knows how to walk the index and trees in parallel, and I tend to agree that it may be a more suitable vehicle for this purpose.

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