Thomas Gummerer <t.gumme...@gmail.com> writes: >> I had no idea what --overlay would mean and am still not clear on it. >> Is this analogous to "git add --ignore-removal"? If so, can we just >> call it --ignore-removal? > > Yes, it seems like they are very similar.
Hmm, I am not sure if the word "removal" makes sense in the context of "checkout", as "removal" is an _action_ just like "checking out" itself is, and not a _state_. You'd check out a state out of a tree to the index and the working tree, so "checking out absence of a path" may make sense, though, as "absence of a path" is a state recorded in that source tree object. The word "removal" makes little sense in "git add --ignore-removal", but it and "git add --no-all" outlived their usefulness already, so it may not be worth _fixing_ it. But I am mildly opposed to spread the earlier mistake to a new option.
