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tidbeck
tidbeck

Reputation: 2418

How to checkout files from branch with wildcard path spec?

I'm unable to checkout files using wildcards, as described on the git-scm page, from a specific refspec . Describing the issue with an example.

Creating a repository with java and c files:

$ git log --pretty=oneline
d62e124f02e9ec6e2848ccc8db05bb37db167281 All files

$ git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD .
c/one/first.c
c/two/second.c
java/one/first.java
java/two/second.java

Removing the java files:

$ git log --pretty=oneline
97b2ffbdd79f924ca27d0404c612b93feee7f492 Removed java files
d62e124f02e9ec6e2848ccc8db05bb37db167281 All files

$ git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD .
c/one/first.c
c/two/second.c

Trying to checkout the deleted java files, from the previous commit:

$ git checkout d62e124f -- '*.java'
error: pathspec '*.java' did not match any file(s) known to git.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1265

Answers (1)

Adrian Leonhard
Adrian Leonhard

Reputation: 7380

As far as I can tell, when you do git checkout d62e124f -- '*.java', git uses the current working tree to expand *.java, not d62e124f. As you have just deleted all the files, it matches nothing.

Doing 

git restore --source d62e124f '*.java'

works, as git then uses the correct ref to expand the wildcard.

git restore is only available since 2.23.0, before that you can use:

git ls-files d62e124f '*.java' | xargs git checkout d62e124f

Upvotes: 1

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