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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-09-04 08:28:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-09-04 08:36:33 -0700 |
| commit | caae319e49e236205d463de2ecf24ce5aae642ab (patch) | |
| tree | 142f4c25b54e3a99c3f012e7d395027bb76496bc /Documentation/git-checkout.txt | |
| parent | Git 1.7.10.5 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-caae319e49e236205d463de2ecf24ce5aae642ab.tar.xz | |
Document file-glob for "git checkout -- '*.c'"
Just like we give a similar example in "git add" documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 63a251612a..5634efffa0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -367,6 +367,18 @@ $ git checkout hello.c <3> <2> take a file out of another commit <3> restore hello.c from the index + +If you want to check out _all_ C source files out of the index, +you can say ++ +------------ +$ git checkout -- '*.c' +------------ ++ +Note the quotes around `*.c`. The file `hello.c` will also be +checked out, even though it is no longer in the working tree, +because the file globbing is used to match entries in the index +(not in the working tree by the shell). ++ If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch. You should instead write: |