From 5c951ef47bf2e34dbde58bda88d430937657d2aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Clemens Buchacher Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:50:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: read-tree --prefix works with existing subtrees Since 34110cd4 (Make 'unpack_trees()' have a separate source and destination index) it is no longer true that a subdirectory with the same prefix must not exist. Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-read-tree.txt | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt index 537554982..a43e87448 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt @@ -83,11 +83,10 @@ OPTIONS --prefix=/:: Keep the current index contents, and read the contents - of the named tree-ish under the directory at ``. The - original index file cannot have anything at the path - `` itself, nor anything in the `/` - directory. Note that the `/` value must end - with a slash. + of the named tree-ish under the directory at ``. + The command will refuse to overwrite entries that already + existed in the original index file. Note that the `/` + value must end with a slash. --exclude-per-directory=:: When running the command with `-u` and `-m` options, the -- 2.30.2