"Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> * You say "git checkout -- file" when you want to "check out the file >> from the index"; > > The real question here is the --. Is it strictly needed? It's > optional in things like git-diff, which just do their best to guess > what you mean if you don't use the --. No, I wrote -- only for clarity, because you can happen to have a branch whose name is the same as the file. Otherwise you can safely omit it, just like git-diff and any other commands that follow the -- convention. I have a work tree that has an untracked file HEAD and master just to catch script breakages that forgets to place -- in appropriate places when they deal with user supplied pathnames. -- 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
