Re: git refuses to switch to older branches

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

... I'm not sure if this is feature or bug that git-checkout
with file specified (path limit specified?) doesn't need -f

This is definitely a feature we deliberately added long after
git-checkout was initially written, in reponse to specific
requests from users.  Back then the only way to revert to index
or HEAD was to "checkout-index -f -q -u -a" or "reset --hard"
and it was cumbersome to revert only a single path.

I have been wondering if we wanted to be able to say:

	git checkout HEAD gitweb/

to revert everything under named hierarchy, but we haven't heard
user requests for this.  This is way more dangerous than my
liking so personally I am happy that we do not have it.