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SYNOPSIS
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[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]
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:
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-$ find . -name '*.h' -print0 | xargs -0 git-checkout-index -f --
+$ 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
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:
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-$ find . -name '*.h' -print0 | git-checkout-index -f -z --stdin
+$ find . -name '*.h' -print0 | git checkout-index -f -z --stdin
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The `--` is just a good idea when you know the rest will be filenames;
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
+$ git checkout-index -n -f -a && git update-index --ignore-missing --refresh
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Using `git-checkout-index` to "export an entire tree"::
Just read the desired tree into the index, and do:
+
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-$ git-checkout-index --prefix=git-export-dir/ -a
+$ git checkout-index --prefix=git-export-dir/ -a
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+
-`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
Export files with a prefix::
+
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-$ git-checkout-index --prefix=.merged- Makefile
+$ git checkout-index --prefix=.merged- Makefile
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+
This will check out the currently cached copy of `Makefile`