Hi Cameron,
Do you have a use case for this? I ask because the upstream folks may be
expecting that the likes of `diff` would be the way to go for com paring
what they would expect to be almost identical files...
As a side note the upstream git folks are looking at splitting the
'checkout' functionality (IIRC) between the treeish and the file-wise
things because the checkout command has become unwieldy (but it won't be
going away..)
So it (--prefix) may be a valid use case suggestion for an easy project
for the various folks who come along looking for projects (Outreachy and
GSOC, etc.)
Have a look at the devs mailing list archive
https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=GSOC (adjust your search to taste)
Philip
On 14/04/2019 12:57, Cameron Boehmer wrote:
I've found myself wanting to checkout paths from another branch w/o
overwriting the same paths in my current branch. I was hoping to find
this functionality in `checkout`, but, alas, no `--prefix` argument,
like `checkout-index`'s, exists.
I suppose I could do the standard checkout, move the checked-out paths
somewhere temporary, and then reset the paths in question, but I'd
love to discover I don't have to write my own script to do this.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Cameron
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