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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6dd6db04bb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt @@ -0,0 +1,185 @@ +git-checkout-index(1) +===================== + +NAME +---- +git-checkout-index - Copy files from the index to the working tree + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'git-checkout-index' [-u] [-q] [-a] [-f] [-n] [--prefix=<string>] + [--stage=<number>|all] + [--temp] + [-z] [--stdin] + [--] [<file>]\* + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Will copy all files listed from the index to the working directory +(not overwriting existing files). + +OPTIONS +------- +-u|--index:: + update stat information for the checked out entries in + the index file. + +-q|--quiet:: + be quiet if files exist or are not in the index + +-f|--force:: + forces overwrite of existing files + +-a|--all:: + checks out all files in the index. Cannot be used + together with explicit filenames. + +-n|--no-create:: + Don't checkout new files, only refresh files already checked + out. + +--prefix=<string>:: + When creating files, prepend <string> (usually a directory + including a trailing /) + +--stage=<number>|all:: + Instead of checking out unmerged entries, copy out the + files from named stage. <number> must be between 1 and 3. + Note: --stage=all automatically implies --temp. + +--temp:: + Instead of copying the files to the working directory + write the content to temporary files. The temporary name + associations will be written to stdout. + +--stdin:: + Instead of taking list of paths from the command line, + read list of paths from the standard input. Paths are + separated by LF (i.e. one path per line) by default. + +-z:: + Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with + NUL character instead of LF. + +\--:: + Do not interpret any more arguments as options. + +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`. + +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: + +---------------- +$ find . -name '*.h' -print0 | xargs -0 git-checkout-index -f -- +---------------- + +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: + +---------------- +$ find . -name '*.h' -print0 | git-checkout-index -f -z --stdin +---------------- + +The `--` is just a good idea when you know the rest will be filenames; +it will prevent problems with a filename of, for example, `-a`. +Using `--` is probably a good policy in scripts. + + +Using --temp or --stage=all +--------------------------- +When `--temp` is used (or implied by `--stage=all`) +`git-checkout-index` will create a temporary file for each index +entry being checked out. The index will not be updated with stat +information. These options can be useful if the caller needs all +stages of all unmerged entries so that the unmerged files can be +processed by an external merge tool. + +A listing will be written to stdout providing the association of +temporary file names to tracked path names. The listing format +has two variations: + + . tempname TAB path RS ++ +The first format is what gets used when `--stage` is omitted or +is not `--stage=all`. The field tempname is the temporary file +name holding the file content and path is the tracked path name in +the index. Only the requested entries are output. + + . stage1temp SP stage2temp SP stage3tmp TAB path RS ++ +The second format is what gets used when `--stage=all`. The three +stage temporary fields (stage1temp, stage2temp, stage3temp) list the +name of the temporary file if there is a stage entry in the index +or `.` if there is no stage entry. Paths which only have a stage 0 +entry will always be omitted from the output. + +In both formats RS (the record separator) is newline by default +but will be the null byte if -z was passed on the command line. +The temporary file names are always safe strings; they will never +contain directory separators or whitespace characters. The path +field is always relative to the current directory and the temporary +file names are always relative to the top level directory. + +If the object being copied out to a temporary file is a symbolic +link the content of the link will be written to a normal file. It is +up to the end-user or the Porcelain to make use of this information. + + +EXAMPLES +-------- +To update and refresh only the files already checked out:: ++ +---------------- +$ git-checkout-index -n -f -a && git-update-index --ignore-missing --refresh +---------------- + +Using `git-checkout-index` to "export an entire tree":: + 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: ++ +---------------- +$ git-checkout-index --prefix=git-export-dir/ -a +---------------- ++ +`git-checkout-index` will "export" the index into the specified +directory. ++ +The final "/" is important. The exported name is literally just +prefixed with the specified string. Contrast this with the +following example. + +Export files with a prefix:: ++ +---------------- +$ git-checkout-index --prefix=.merged- Makefile +---------------- ++ +This will check out the currently cached copy of `Makefile` +into the file `.merged-Makefile`. + + +Author +------ +Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> + + +Documentation +-------------- +Documentation by David Greaves, +Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. + + +GIT +--- +Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite + |