It is often wanted on the #git channel that this were to work to

recover removed directory:
	rm -fr Documentation

	git checkout -- Documentation

	git checkout HEAD -- Documentation ;# alternatively
Now it does.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

---

 * Back to fixing usability issues one at a time instead of

   throwing everything away with bathwater.
 git-checkout.sh |    6 +++++-

 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh

index eb28b29..737abd0 100755

--- a/git-checkout.sh

+++ b/git-checkout.sh

@@ -112,7 +112,11 @@ Did you intend to checkout '$@' which ca

 		git-ls-tree --full-name -r "$new" "$@" |

 		git-update-index --index-info || exit $?

 	fi

-	git-checkout-index -f -u -- "$@"

+

+	# Make sure the request is about existing paths.

+	git-ls-files --error-unmatch -- "$@" >/dev/null || exit

+	git-ls-files -- "$@" |

+	git-checkout-index -f -u --stdin

 	exit $?

 else

 	# Make sure we did not fall back on $arg^{tree} codepath

--

1.4.4
-

Wouldn't it be better to fix git-checkout-index to checkout a whole

directory if specified?
--

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis

Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/

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