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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-07-09 15:25:44 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-07-09 15:25:44 -0700
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Merge branch 'nd/switch-and-restore'
Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and "checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout" command. * nd/switch-and-restore: (46 commits) completion: disable dwim on "git switch -d" switch: allow to switch in the middle of bisect t2027: use test_must_be_empty Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups doc: promote "git restore" user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard' completion: support restore t: add tests for restore restore: support --patch restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged restore: add --worktree and --staged checkout: factor out worktree checkout code restore: disable overlay mode by default restore: make pathspec mandatory restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore' doc: promote "git switch" ...
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@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ disambiguating `--` at appropriate places.
things:
+
--------------------------------
-$ git checkout -- *.c
-$ git checkout -- \*.c
+$ git restore *.c
+$ git restore \*.c
--------------------------------
+
The former lets your shell expand the fileglob, and you are asking
@@ -209,6 +209,18 @@ See also http://marc.info/?l=git&m=116563135620359 and
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119150393620273 for further
information.
+Some other commands that also work on files in the working tree and/or
+in the index can take `--staged` and/or `--worktree`.
+
+* `--staged` is exactly like `--cached`, which is used to ask a
+ command to only work on the index, not the working tree.
+
+* `--worktree` is the opposite, to ask a command to work on the
+ working tree only, not the index.
+
+* The two options can be specified together to ask a command to work
+ on both the index and the working tree.
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite