On June 3, 2015 2:11 PM Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Randall S. Becker" <rsbec...@nexbridge.com> writes: > > On June 3, 2015 1:35 PM Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Is that really true? It all depends on why you came to a situation > >> to have "missing files" in the first place, I would think, but "git > >> checkout $path" is "I messed up the version in the working tree at > >> $path, and want to restore them". One particular kind of "I messed > >> up" may be "I deleted by mistake" > >> (hence making them "missing"), but is it so common to delete things > >> by mistake, as opposed to editing, making a mess and realizing that > >> the work so far was not improving things and wanting to restart from > >> scratch? > > > > When working in an IDE like ECLIPSE or MonoDevelop, accidentally > > hitting the DEL button or a drag-drop move is a fairly common trigger > > for the "Wait-No-Stop-Oh-Drats" process which includes running git > > checkout to recover. > > That is an interesting tangent. If you are lucky then the deleted file may be > unedited one, but I presume that you are not always lucky. So perhaps "git > checkout" is not a solution to that particular IDE issue in the first place?
Agreed. That's why I like knowing what's in my sausages and commit often. Only lost a minor change once from this. I wonder what else is afoot. Ed, can you expand on the issue? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
