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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-09-15 07:45:03 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-09-15 07:45:03 +0400 |
| commit | 67117596173cc49b0ca4b8b5739c5fd794a7022a (patch) | |
| tree | fde0d393ba0cc8eacce83e1f5da70d0b4dc15842 /Documentation/git-checkout.txt | |
| parent | 1403db49b80630cf8c36ba3e8b0f085ea0ab8286 (diff) | |
| parent | 8300016e0ab6959c4b45f64ec585832726430fc7 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'jc/maint-checkout-fileglob-doc' into maint-1.7.11
* jc/maint-checkout-fileglob-doc:
gitcli: contrast wildcard given to shell and to git
gitcli: formatting fix
Document file-glob for "git checkout -- '*.c'"
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 12 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 11cc7f0588..7958a47006 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -367,6 +367,18 @@ $ git checkout hello.c <3> <2> take a file out of another commit <3> restore hello.c from the index + +If you want to check out _all_ C source files out of the index, +you can say ++ +------------ +$ git checkout -- '*.c' +------------ ++ +Note the quotes around `*.c`. The file `hello.c` will also be +checked out, even though it is no longer in the working tree, +because the file globbing is used to match entries in the index +(not in the working tree by the shell). ++ If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch. You should instead write: |