Is there a way to use wildcards with git checkout?

Question

What I would like to do is to checkout a single file or a set of files with a common name part like this

git checkout myBranch */myFile.md and

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Answer 1

None of the other answers worked for me, but bambams comment worked. I made it into a bash function that accepts two args. Usage:

gitcheckout myBranch '*file*'

gitcheckout()
{
    GIT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null); 
    pushd .;
    cd $GIT_DIR/../;
    git diff --name-only $1 -- $2 | xargs git checkout $1 --;
    popd;
}

Answer 2

For me the task was to checkout several files named after one pattern:

• ./a/b/c/FirstTest.java
• .d/e/f/SecondTest.java
• ./g/h/i/ThirdTest.java

I've used this bash command:

# 1. Find files named after "*Test.java" pattern.
# 2. Execute checkout command on every found file.

find . -name "*Test.java" -exec git checkout master {} \;

Also firstly you can test the find command with simple echo, which just prints a given text ({} in our case, which will be replaced with current found filename by shell):

find . -name "*Test.java" -exec echo {} \;