On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 10:32:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "git checkout $paths" (and you can give "." for $paths to mean > "everything") is akin to "cp -R $elsewhere/$path ." to restore the > working tree copies from somewhere else. > > "Ouch, 'git checkout .' overwrote what was in my working tree" is > exactly the same kind of confusion as "I ran 'cp -r ../saved .' and > it overwrote everything". As you said in your initial response, > that is what the command is meant for. > > What does that similar command outside world, "cp", have for "more > safety"? 'cp -i' asks if the user wants to overwrite a file for > each path; perhaps a behaviour similar to that was the original > poster wanted to see?
Yeah, I'd say "cp -i" is the closest thing. I don't have a problem with adding that, but I'd really hate for it to be the default (just as I find distros which "alias rm='rm -i" annoying). -Peff -- 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
