Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.12-395-g6b149
diff --git a/git-checkout.txt b/git-checkout.txt index 11cc7f0..7958a47 100644 --- a/git-checkout.txt +++ b/git-checkout.txt
@@ -367,6 +367,18 @@ <2> take a file out of another commit <3> restore hello.c from the index + +If you want to check out _all_ C source files out of the index, +you can say ++ +------------ +$ git checkout -- '*.c' +------------ ++ +Note the quotes around `*.c`. The file `hello.c` will also be +checked out, even though it is no longer in the working tree, +because the file globbing is used to match entries in the index +(not in the working tree by the shell). ++ If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch. You should instead write:
