Subject: RE:

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 16:07:51 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 7 May 2009, [email-masked] wrote:
>>
>> even with this a git checkout -f should replace all files, correct?
>
> Hmm. I don't think so.
>
> As far as I recall, "-f" only overrides certain errors (like unmerged
> files or not up-to-date content), it doesn't change behavior wrt files
> that git thinks are already up-to-date.

what about a reset --hard? (is there any command that would force the 
files to be re-written, no matter what git thinks is already there)

David Lang