Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-)

["Jeff Whiteside" <jeff.m.whiteside@gmail.com>]

> commit -a detects that files have been deleted, and takes them out of the index !
> could also have used $ git rm <specific files> and then $ git commit ..

hey! i like your changes! the post is pretty polished now.  the only
thing else i would change (srysry), is the above.  "-a detects that
files have been deleted"  -> heh, not true.  you don't need -a here;
it does something else.

okay i just recreated your repo and did the same thing.  with your
syntax "git checkout versionA ." i got the same result, and i'm not
sure why, but i think it was because of the detached head.

good news, use "git checkout versionA", not "git checkout versionA ."
(so, use it wihtout the dot), and you should be back in working order.

the other (good?)  news is that you probably _do_ want to be using git
reset --hard in your case, because you're trying to build up a history
from some project, so you do want to erase some faulty commits after
you bodge something or miss some files.

the bad news is that my opinion is that you should probably move on
with your life, because my own past tells me that you'll never
actually use those old project versions, hahah :p