Git结帐：星号pathspec不起作用

Question

This works fine:

git checkout **/pom.xml

But we can't run this against another branch

git checkout anotherbranch **/pom.xml
git checkout anotherbranch -- **/pom.xml

error: pathspec '**/pom.xml' did not match any file(s) known to git.

We're on Windows 7/DOS.

Anyone know why?

Note that it works fine without the ** . This would checkout the pom.xml from the root. But we're trying to checkout all pom.xml's that are in the directory tree.

Answer 1

I think what's happening here is:

Per torek :

The shell replaces * with all the file names in your current working directory,1 and then having done that, then runs git

I think that the current branch/working directory has files matching the pathspec that are not in anotherbranch . And this is causing the error when we attempt effectively run git checkout anotherbranch unknown_file .