Ed Avis <eda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > If my personal experience is anything to go by, newcomers may fall into the > habit of running 'git checkout .' to restore missing files. Is that really true? It all depends on why you came to a situation to have "missing files" in the first place, I would think, but "git checkout $path" is "I messed up the version in the working tree at $path, and want to restore them". One particular kind of "I messed up" may be "I deleted by mistake" (hence making them "missing"), but is it so common to delete things by mistake, as opposed to editing, making a mess and realizing that the work so far was not improving things and wanting to restart from scratch? -- 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