Re: git checkout improvement

["Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/8/21 Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:20:49AM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> I also noticed completing files from the index doesn't work as well as
>> completing files from a given tree... eg, If you type
>> git checkout HEAD gi<tab>
>> you get git.c, but if you
>> git checkout -- gi<tab>
>> you get nothing. However,
>> git checkout -- <tab>
>> lists all the files, and lets you cycle through them until you reach git.c
>> It uses __git_cached_files for that case, but some other places that call
>> that work just fine with something already typed. You got any idea?
>
> I am getting confused here.  Can you use -- when there's a tree-ish on
> the line?

Yes. All of these are valid commands:
git checkout git.c
git checkout HEAD git.c
git checkout -- git.c
git checkout HEAD -- git.c

-- 
Mikael Magnusson