Robin Moussu <moussu.robin@xxxxx> writes: > 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. Yes, "git restore <from-where> <pathspec>" is like "I made a mess in the paths <pathspec> in the working tree and I want to start from a known state, so please take the contents for these paths from <from-where> and overwrite the garbage I have in the working tree". It would be a grave regression to stop overwriting by default, as it misses the entire point of the command. The same applies to "git checkout <from-where> -- <pathspec>".
