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dazz
dazz

Reputation: 8762

git checkout delete directory

I was wondering how i can recover all the files in a directory at once whit git checkout?

You can use the path to the directory to add or remove all files in it at once, like 

git add /path/to/dir/

But when i do 

git checkout /path/to/dir/

i get something like this 

error: pathspec '/path/to/dir/' did not match any file(s) known to git.

So i have to manually add every file, is there an easier way?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2714

Answers (2)

lc2817
lc2817

Reputation: 3742

Apparently you can do it: watch here for an example. The command 

git checkout <treeish> -- /path/to/dir

should be working. In your case you don't specify a branch and it should revert the state of the directory to the last commit.

Maybe you have forgotten -- after the git checkout command.
(I did not even know that it could be used without -- when not dealing with branches.)

Upvotes: 0

Datamosh
Datamosh

Reputation: 124

I think you need to determine the branch

git checkout master or git checkout <treeish> -- /path/to/dir

More info: http://gitready.com/intermediate/2009/03/18/restoring-a-directory-from-history.html`

Upvotes: 1

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