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| author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-11-11 22:37:38 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-11-11 22:37:38 -0800 |
| commit | f7a2eb735982e921ae4379f1dcf5f7a023610393 (patch) | |
| tree | 26fe2c59a8fed68a531e7b855a495f52198162a2 /Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt | |
| parent | GIT 0.99.9g (diff) | |
| parent | Ignore built git-lost+found. (diff) | |
| download | git-0.99.9h.tar.gz git-0.99.9h.zip | |
This is GIT 1.0-rc1 in disguise. It is plausible that
relatively new parts of the system still need tweaking and
fixing, but that is why it is not 1.0 but rc ;-).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt index 589dc9ad12..94b283a6bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-checkout-index(1) NAME ---- -git-checkout-index - Copy files from the cache to the working directory +git-checkout-index - Copy files from the index to the working directory SYNOPSIS @@ -13,23 +13,23 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Will copy all files listed from the cache to the working directory +Will copy all files listed from the index to the working directory (not overwriting existing files). OPTIONS ------- -u:: update stat information for the checked out entries in - the cache file. + the index file. -q:: - be quiet if files exist or are not in the cache + be quiet if files exist or are not in the index -f:: forces overwrite of existing files -a:: - checks out all files in the cache. Cannot be used + checks out all files in the index. Cannot be used together with explicit filenames. -n:: @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ supposed to be able to do things like: 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 cache, which was not the point. +force-refresh everything in the index, which was not the point. To update and refresh only the files already checked out: @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ desired tree into the index, and do a git-checkout-index --prefix=git-export-dir/ -a -and git-checkout-index will "export" the cache into the specified +and git-checkout-index will "export" the index into the specified directory. NOTE The final "/" is important. The exported name is literally just |