On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Please learn to think before typing, let alone sending such a message to > waste other people's time. Why so harsh? > What alternatives do you want to implement? Certainly not silently > creating "nul-garbage" file instead and pretend that nothing bad happened, > as that would lead to madness. Or instead we could have a '-f' switch or such with checkout that allows you to checkout a revision that contains a bad file, but with that file missing. Of course this needn't happen silently, a big warning saying "could not checkout file %s because of %s" may still be issued. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier -- 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