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by mehrdadn 2596 days ago
Probably a feature given how many gazillion meanings they've given to checkout intentionally, but I have no clue. Hopefully it got the point across though ;) and I'm pretty sure it's not the only way to lose info in git...
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bicolao 2596 days ago
In a near future, hopefully we will have two new commands, git-switch and git-restore. The former is only about switching branches, the latter restoring files. Then you can stay away from the overloaded git-checkout.

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https://github.com/git/git/blob/pu/Documentation/git-switch....

https://github.com/git/git/blob/pu/Documentation/git-restore...

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mehrdadn 2596 days ago
That's awesome :) though this is just one way to lose files.
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bicolao 2594 days ago
Yeah some of those ways are known and there may be a way to recover those lost changes. It's still too early to see if something will materialize.
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