From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: RE: Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 16:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <454B76988CBF42F5BCACA5061125D263@caottdt504> <81b0412b0905071013y241f7eas8417127e51ff52fa@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Bevan Watkiss , "'Alex Riesen'" , Git Mailing List To: david@lang.hm X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 08 01:02:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M2CcB-0003eS-PB for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 01:02:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753445AbZEGXCp (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 19:02:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753316AbZEGXCo (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 19:02:44 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47320 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752866AbZEGXCo (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 19:02:44 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n47N0FP7030188 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 7 May 2009 16:00:51 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n47N0Ebs000339; Thu, 7 May 2009 16:00:15 -0700 X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.462 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 7 May 2009, david@lang.hm wrote: > > even with this a git checkout -f should replace all files, correct? Hmm. I don't think so. As far as I recall, "-f" only overrides certain errors (like unmerged files or not up-to-date content), it doesn't change behavior wrt files that git thinks are already up-to-date. But I didn't check. Linus