On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 09:14:42AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Is there a reason that we don't use this diff technique for checkout? > > I suspect that the reasons are probably mixture of these: > > (1) the code path may descend from checkout-index and predates the > in-core diff machinery; > > (2) in the context of checkout-index, it was more desirable to be > able to say "I want the contents on the filesystem, even if you > think I already have it there, as you as a new software are > likely to be wrong and I know better"; or > > (3) it was easier to code that way ;-) > > I do not see there is any reason not to do what you suggest. OK. It's not very much code (and can mostly be lifted from git-reset), so I may take a stab at it. -Peff -- 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