Re: (beginner) git rm

Björn Steinbrink [off-list ref] writes:

With "checkout", I'm still a bit unsure about which term to use, because
of the behaviour you get with, for example, "git checkout HEAD --
directory".
...
It would probably be better to say that checkout only works with the
blobs (because the index doesn't have entries for trees, right?).

True, it is not just "checkout".  There is no such thing as "directory" in
git UI, in that sense.

When you say:

	git checkout [<tree-ish>] -- pathspec

you may be using the same string as the name of an existing directory, but
that does not change the fact that you are giving a pathspec pattern to
specify the set of paths in the index (or in the <tree-ish>) that matches
the pathspec.