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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2008-07-02 03:06:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2008-07-02 03:06:38 +0000 |
| commit | fce7c7e1549d1a2a2b0faf5952378236eed4d468 (patch) | |
| tree | ffce2ae419b52786a0e567f4fddaadd89016f62c /git-checkout-index.txt | |
| parent | bb8e996adf4293a0b624fe77e95e12ae8d1faed9 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-fce7c7e1549d1a2a2b0faf5952378236eed4d468.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/git-checkout-index.txt b/git-checkout-index.txt index 676203b2e..a833a4dda 100644 --- a/git-checkout-index.txt +++ b/git-checkout-index.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-checkout-index - Copy files from the index to the working tree SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-checkout-index' [-u] [-q] [-a] [-f] [-n] [--prefix=<string>] +'git checkout-index' [-u] [-q] [-a] [-f] [-n] [--prefix=<string>] [--stage=<number>|all] [--temp] [-z] [--stdin] @@ -73,25 +73,25 @@ OPTIONS The order of the flags used to matter, but not anymore. -Just doing `git-checkout-index` does nothing. You probably meant -`git-checkout-index -a`. And if you want to force it, you want -`git-checkout-index -f -a`. +Just doing `git checkout-index` does nothing. You probably meant +`git checkout-index -a`. And if you want to force it, you want +`git checkout-index -f -a`. Intuitiveness is not the goal here. Repeatability is. The reason for the "no arguments means no work" behavior is that from scripts you are supposed to be able to do: ---------------- -$ find . -name '*.h' -print0 | xargs -0 git-checkout-index -f -- +$ find . -name '*.h' -print0 | xargs -0 git checkout-index -f -- ---------------- which will force all existing `*.h` files to be replaced with their cached copies. If an empty command line implied "all", then this would force-refresh everything in the index, which was not the point. But -since git-checkout-index accepts --stdin it would be faster to use: +since `git-checkout-index` accepts --stdin it would be faster to use: ---------------- -$ find . -name '*.h' -print0 | git-checkout-index -f -z --stdin +$ find . -name '*.h' -print0 | git checkout-index -f -z --stdin ---------------- The `--` is just a good idea when you know the rest will be filenames; @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ EXAMPLES To update and refresh only the files already checked out:: + ---------------- -$ git-checkout-index -n -f -a && git-update-index --ignore-missing --refresh +$ git checkout-index -n -f -a && git update-index --ignore-missing --refresh ---------------- Using `git-checkout-index` to "export an entire tree":: @@ -153,10 +153,10 @@ Using `git-checkout-index` to "export an entire tree":: Just read the desired tree into the index, and do: + ---------------- -$ git-checkout-index --prefix=git-export-dir/ -a +$ git checkout-index --prefix=git-export-dir/ -a ---------------- + -`git-checkout-index` will "export" the index into the specified +`git checkout-index` will "export" the index into the specified directory. + The final "/" is important. The exported name is literally just @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ following example. Export files with a prefix:: + ---------------- -$ git-checkout-index --prefix=.merged- Makefile +$ git checkout-index --prefix=.merged- Makefile ---------------- + This will check out the currently cached copy of `Makefile` |