Re: Suggestion: make git checkout safer

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:

> On June 3, 2015 1:35 PM Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Is that really true?  It all depends on why you came to a
>> situation to have "missing files" in the first place, I would
>> think, but "git checkout $path" is "I messed up the version in
>> the working tree at $path, and want to restore them".  One
>> particular kind of "I messed up" may be "I deleted by mistake"
>> (hence making them "missing"), but is it so common to delete
>> things by mistake, as opposed to editing, making a mess and
>> realizing that the work so far was not improving things and
>> wanting to restart from scratch?
>
> When working in an IDE like ECLIPSE or MonoDevelop, accidentally
> hitting the DEL button or a drag-drop move is a fairly common
> trigger for the "Wait-No-Stop-Oh-Drats" process which includes
> running git checkout to recover.

That is an interesting tangent.  If you are lucky then the deleted
file may be unedited one, but I presume that you are not always
lucky.  So perhaps "git checkout" is not a solution to that
particular IDE issue in the first place?