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git-checkout-index(1) |
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git-checkout-index - Copy files from the cache to the working directory |
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SYNOPSIS |
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'git-checkout-index' [-u] [-q] [-a] [-f] [-n] [--prefix=<string>] |
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[--] <file>... |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Will copy all files listed from the cache to the working directory |
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(not overwriting existing files). |
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OPTIONS |
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-u:: |
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update stat information for the checked out entries in |
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the cache file. |
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-q:: |
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be quiet if files exist or are not in the cache |
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-f:: |
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forces overwrite of existing files |
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-a:: |
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checks out all files in the cache (will then continue to |
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process listed files). |
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-n:: |
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Don't checkout new files, only refresh files already checked |
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out. |
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--prefix=<string>:: |
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When creating files, prepend <string> (usually a directory |
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including a trailing /) |
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--:: |
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Do not interpret any more arguments as options. |
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Note that the order of the flags matters: |
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git-checkout-index -a -f file.c |
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will first check out all files listed in the cache (but not overwrite |
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any old ones), and then force-checkout `file.c` a second time (ie that |
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one *will* overwrite any old contents with the same filename). |
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Also, just doing "git-checkout-index" does nothing. You probably meant |
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"git-checkout-index -a". And if you want to force it, you want |
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"git-checkout-index -f -a". |
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Intuitiveness is not the goal here. Repeatability is. The reason for |
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the "no arguments means no work" thing is that from scripts you are |
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supposed to be able to do things like: |
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find . -name '*.h' -print0 | xargs -0 git-checkout-index -f -- |
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which will force all existing `*.h` files to be replaced with their |
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cached copies. If an empty command line implied "all", then this would |
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force-refresh everything in the cache, which was not the point. |
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To update and refresh only the files already checked out: |
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git-checkout-index -n -f -a && git-update-index --ignore-missing --refresh |
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Oh, and the "--" is just a good idea when you know the rest will be |
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filenames. Just so that you wouldn't have a filename of "-a" causing |
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problems (not possible in the above example, but get used to it in |
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scripting!). |
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The prefix ability basically makes it trivial to use |
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git-checkout-index as an "export as tree" function. Just read the |
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desired tree into the index, and do a |
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git-checkout-index --prefix=git-export-dir/ -a |
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and git-checkout-index will "export" the cache into the specified |
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directory. |
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NOTE The final "/" is important. The exported name is literally just |
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prefixed with the specified string, so you can also do something like |
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git-checkout-index --prefix=.merged- Makefile |
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to check out the currently cached copy of `Makefile` into the file |
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`.merged-Makefile` |
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Author |
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |
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Documentation |
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Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. |
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GIT |
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |
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