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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> | 2008-06-30 01:09:04 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-07-01 17:20:15 -0700 |
| commit | b1889c36d85514e5e70462294c561a02c2edfe2b (patch) | |
| tree | 9a171d7e3fb8063c239a2c9c4dcec744a202de07 /Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt | |
| parent | 46e56e81b3bc91af7071809fbda8dcdec22c4cb1 (diff) | |
| download | git-b1889c36d85514e5e70462294c561a02c2edfe2b.tar.gz | |
Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using
"git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is
not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to
refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no
escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.)
This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command,
program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can
be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are
made to use the dashless form.
The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens
and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched
versions are identical.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt index 676203b2eb..daa6aee558 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-checkout-index - Copy files from the index to the working tree SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-checkout-index' [-u] [-q] [-a] [-f] [-n] [--prefix=<string>] +'git checkout-index' [-u] [-q] [-a] [-f] [-n] [--prefix=<string>] [--stage=<number>|all] [--temp] [-z] [--stdin] @@ -73,16 +73,16 @@ OPTIONS The order of the flags used to matter, but not anymore. -Just doing `git-checkout-index` does nothing. You probably meant -`git-checkout-index -a`. And if you want to force it, you want -`git-checkout-index -f -a`. +Just doing `git checkout-index` does nothing. You probably meant +`git checkout-index -a`. And if you want to force it, you want +`git checkout-index -f -a`. Intuitiveness is not the goal here. Repeatability is. The reason for the "no arguments means no work" behavior is that from scripts you are supposed to be able to do: ---------------- -$ 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 @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ force-refresh everything in the index, which was not the point. But 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` |