On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > $ git checkout 94d8 -- * > $ ls > f1 > > Note that the work directory is empty when the checkout is done, and > that the checkout restores f1 > in it, a file that is not denoted by the * pathspec. I think in this case '*' remains unexpanded by the shell. Which means it is still a pathspec to checkout (iow equivalent to "git checkout 94d8 -- '*'"). Checkout in turns matches the pathspec '*' against the tree and decides to restore 'fl'. It's confusing but I don't think there's much we can do about it. > I guess that this is the intended behaviour, and that the man page > should be updated to tell exactly > what files git restores. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html