git-checkout: allow pathspec to recover lost working tree directory

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>
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Junio C Hamano 2006-11-15 10:54:10 -08:00
parent 897643cc79
commit bf7e1472df

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@ -112,7 +112,11 @@ Did you intend to checkout '$@' which can not be resolved as commit?"
git-ls-tree --full-name -r "$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