Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> writes:
> A recent discussion on LWN https://lwn.net/Articles/770642/ noted that > "git checkout <release> <file…>" does not warn if one if the files has > been modified locally, nor is there an option to do so. > > IMHO that should be fixed, preferably by somebody who knows git's > internals well enough to do so in half an hour ;-) "git checkout <commit> <pathspec>" is a feature to overwrite local changes. It is what you use when you make a mess editing the files and want to go back to a known state. Why should that feature be destroyed?
