提交 fd25c82a 编写于 作者: J Junio C Hamano

git-checkout-index: documentation updates.

Now the behaviour of '-a' has been straightened out, document it.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
上级 a65a686f
......@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ OPTIONS
forces overwrite of existing files
-a::
checks out all files in the cache (will then continue to
process listed files).
checks out all files in the cache. Cannot be used
together with explicit filenames.
-n::
Don't checkout new files, only refresh files already checked
......@@ -44,15 +44,9 @@ OPTIONS
--::
Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
Note that the order of the flags matters:
The order of the flags used to matter, but not anymore.
git-checkout-index -a -f file.c
will first check out all files listed in the cache (but not overwrite
any old ones), and then force-checkout `file.c` a second time (ie that
one *will* overwrite any old contents with the same filename).
Also, just doing "git-checkout-index" does nothing. You probably meant
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".
......@@ -78,12 +72,12 @@ scripting!).
The prefix ability basically makes it trivial to use
git-checkout-index as an "export as tree" function. Just read the
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
directory.
NOTE The final "/" is important. The exported name is literally just
prefixed with the specified string, so you can also do something like
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