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Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git checkout $tree path
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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:

> I think I'd expect the first behavior with:
>
> $ git checkout master -- dir/*

If we did not have to worry about "dir/.gitignore", this proposal does
have certain attractiveness.