Hi, On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > I suggested that: to prevent the index from needing an update. > > > > This is quite important if you have a large working tree, and switch > > branches from A to B. For example, "make" will punish you where it > > hurts. > > This isn't used for switching branches; this is used for checking out > paths. If you do "git checkout <not-head> -- <every single path>", make > will punish you, but why would you do that? I'd guess that people are > unlikely to have a significant number of non-changes in this piece of > code, just because they wouldn't list things that they didn't think had > changes. For convenience, you can also say $ git checkout -- <path> and expect checkout to not really touch the unchanged files. Ciao, Dscho - 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
