Request: `git restore $commit $file` shouldn’t override uncommited changes

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Hello,
That’s the first time I’m interacting with the git community, I’m not very familiar with the process. I hope I’m at the right place for a feature request.

Currently, I don’t think that it’s possible to get an error when copying the content of a file from another revision into your working tree if said file has uncommitted changes.

I recently discovered that `git restore` was introduced to make file manipulation less confusing than with `git checkout`. I know it was introduced a few years ago, I’m late to the party! I would have expected that the semantic of `git restore` or `git restore $file` would discard all uncommitted changes (you are restoring the file after all), while `git restore $commit $file` would copy the content of said file from another revision only if your don’t have uncommitted changes or to get an error. If it was really what I wanted to do, I would have expected to either do `git restore $file && git restore $commit $file`, directly `git restore --force $commit $file` or something similar.

Is my expectation wrong? Would it be worth considering adding an option in `.gitconfig` to have such behavior?

Sincerely,
Robin.





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