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From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Subject: Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:49:22 -0600
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On Tuesday 2008 December 30 15:27:33 you wrote:
> conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
> $ git status
> # On branch master
> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>
> conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
> $ git checkout versionA .
>
> conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
> $ ls
> ABC.txt  AC.txt
>
> conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
> $ rm *.*
>
> conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
> $ git checkout versionB .
>
> conorr@KINKLADZE /w/GITPLATFORM/swproj
> $ ls
> ABC.txt  AC.txt  BC.txt

Not a bug.  git checkout <commit> <paths> does not delete files by design. =
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Try using "git checkout versionB" instead (no paths specified), and it will=
=20
properly remove AC.txt from your working tree as well as warning you=20
that "You're Doing It Wrong" (tm).
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