Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> writes: > Yes, but "Switch branchs or discard local changes" still does not > describe "git checkout HEAD^^^ -- file.txt" (restore to an old state, > but does not switch branch) or "git checkout -- file.txt" (get from the > index).
You are right, especially when file.txt does not have any change relative to HEAD, there is no "discarding" going on. You are actively introducing a change to an unchanged file by checking contents out of a different revision. > To me, "discard local changes" imply that there will be no uncommited > changes on the files implied in the command after the operation. Yup. -- 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
