From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 01:12:07 GMT
Subject: Re: "git checkout" safety feature
Message-ID: <xmqqk1lsl448.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <6afef19d-08f6-9cce-a491-3a49808c57ec@urlichs.de>


Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de> writes:

> A recent discussion on LWN https://lwn.net/Articles/770642/ noted that
> "git checkout <release> <file…>" does not warn if one if the files has
> been modified locally, nor is there an option to do so.
>
> IMHO that should be fixed, preferably by somebody who knows git's
> internals well enough to do so in half an hour ;-)

"git checkout <commit> <pathspec>" is a feature to overwrite local
changes.  It is what you use when you make a mess editing the files
and want to go back to a known state.  Why should that feature be
destroyed?