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From: "Jeff Whiteside" <jeff.m.whiteside@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-)
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>> good news, use "git checkout versionA", not "git checkout versionA ."
>> (so, use it wihtout the dot), and you should be back in working order.
>
> ** yes but I don't get the files copied out into the tree which is all my
> little heart ever desired

you dont "get the files copied out into the tree"...  i have zero idea
what that means wihtout punctuation and context, but i'm pretty sure
that you want to do a "git checkout versionA", not  "git checkout
versionA .".  if i'm wrong, then maybe try a git clean?

> But you're right - chances of using are slim - but you could say that about
> every version sitting in any given SCM repo.
> Thats why we have SCM, and why we insure our cars etc etc. :-)

i punish myself for saying what i did.  shame on me.  you're totally right.