How to checkout files from branch with wildcard path spec?

Question

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 wi

Answer 1

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