From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:54:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG?] git checkout $commit -- somedir doesn't drop files
Message-ID: <xmqq8uyrp0i3.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130919221323.GA18085@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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.