Checkout all files from a different branch without switching to it?

Asked Jul 01 '15 at 04:48

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I have two branches master and limited. From the limited branch I want to checkout all the files that are in the master branch but without actually switching to it.

I tried git checkout master *.* but I think by *.* it takes the file names from my current limited branch and tries to checkout only those files, which don't actually exist in my case and doesn't work in general because that's not what I want. Is there some other command to checkout all files of a different branch?

edited Jul 01 '15 at 07:16

asked Jul 01 '15 at 04:48

laggingreflex

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Can you try: `git checkout master -- .` (while being in limited branch) – VonC Jul 01 '15 at 06:32
@VonC Thanks! that's what I needed, it worked. – laggingreflex Jul 01 '15 at 07:10

Checkout all files from a different branch without switching to it?

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