Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > So I think this inconsistency in pathspec matching between trees and the > index has probably existed in git-checkout for ages (and I guess people > don't do wildcards with trees often enough for anybody to have noticed). > But it didn't cause the index-deletion problem, because that only > appeared more recently with the --no-overlay mode. That's the default > for restore, but you can trigger the problem with checkout, too: > > $ git reset --hard > $ git checkout --no-overlay HEAD^ '*.hpp' > Updated 0 paths from 2668463 > $ git status > On branch master > Changes to be committed: > deleted: incl/test_file.hpp The --no-overlay mode is an enhancement added on top of reasonably aged codebase relatively recently. Most of the core code in checkout dates back to early 2008, while --no-overlay was done as a long-overdue-afterthought in early last year. And it is not all that surprising that this issue took a long time to be discovered. Thank you all for finding, analysing and fixing it promptly.
