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Subject: Re: "git-checkout-cache -f -a" failure
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> Changing files vs directories _is_ a big change and happens
> rarely in practice; I think the current behaviour is
> justified---it makes the user take notice and the user _should_
> take notice.

File vs. directory was just the easiest way to demonstrate.  In the presense
of symlinks I am not sure you will always get a warning.  It'll be more of a
silent file-corrupting failure kind of thing.  (Somewhat worse if yyy points
to /your/home/.ssh and zzz is "authorized_keys".)

Morten