Subject: Re: Change in "git checkout" behaviour between 1.6.0.2 and 1.6.0.3

From: Bruce Stephens <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:44:45 +0000

Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]> writes:

[...]

> Bisecting gives:
>
>
> 5521883490e85f4d973141972cf16f89a79f1979 is first bad commit
> commit 5521883490e85f4d973141972cf16f89a79f1979
> Author: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Sun Sep 7 19:49:25 2008 -0700
>
>     checkout: do not lose staged removal

I got the same, which is reassuring.

Looks like a deliberate change with (what seems to me to be) an
unfortunate interaction with "git clone -n"