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diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index 8d88018eed..a3081f4e23 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git update-index' [--add] [--remove | --force-remove] [--replace] [--refresh] [-q] [--unmerged] [--ignore-missing] - [--cacheinfo <mode> <object> <file>]\* + [(--cacheinfo <mode> <object> <file>)...] [--chmod=(+|-)x] [--assume-unchanged | --no-assume-unchanged] [--skip-worktree | --no-skip-worktree] @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--info-only] [--index-info] [-z] [--stdin] [--verbose] - [--] [<file>]\* + [--] [<file>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ cleared. See also linkgit:git-add[1] for a more user-friendly way to do some of the most common operations on the index. -The way 'git-update-index' handles files it is told about can be modified +The way 'git update-index' handles files it is told about can be modified using the various options: OPTIONS @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ OPTIONS -q:: Quiet. If --refresh finds that the index needs an update, the default behavior is to error out. This option makes - 'git-update-index' continue anyway. + 'git update-index' continue anyway. --ignore-submodules:: Do not try to update submodules. This option is only respected @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ OPTIONS --unmerged:: If --refresh finds unmerged changes in the index, the default - behavior is to error out. This option makes 'git-update-index' + behavior is to error out. This option makes 'git update-index' continue anyway. --ignore-missing:: @@ -93,8 +93,6 @@ OPTIONS This option can be also used as a coarse file-level mechanism to ignore uncommitted changes in tracked files (akin to what `.gitignore` does for untracked files). -You should remember that an explicit 'git add' operation will -still cause the file to be refreshed from the working tree. Git will fail (gracefully) in case it needs to modify this file in the index e.g. when merging in a commit; thus, in case the assumed-untracked file is changed upstream, @@ -113,7 +111,7 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually. -g:: --again:: - Runs 'git-update-index' itself on the paths whose index + Runs 'git update-index' itself on the paths whose index entries are different from those from the `HEAD` commit. --unresolve:: @@ -131,7 +129,7 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually. --replace:: By default, when a file `path` exists in the index, - 'git-update-index' refuses an attempt to add `path/file`. + 'git update-index' refuses an attempt to add `path/file`. Similarly if a file `path/file` exists, a file `path` cannot be added. With --replace flag, existing entries that conflict with the entry being added are @@ -146,8 +144,8 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually. Report what is being added and removed from index. -z:: - Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with - NUL character instead of LF. + Only meaningful with `--stdin` or `--index-info`; paths are + separated with NUL character instead of LF. \--:: Do not interpret any more arguments as options. @@ -167,7 +165,7 @@ up-to-date for mode/content changes. But what it *does* do is to can refresh the index for a file that hasn't been changed but where the stat entry is out of date. -For example, you'd want to do this after doing a 'git-read-tree', to link +For example, you'd want to do this after doing a 'git read-tree', to link up the stat index details with the proper files. Using --cacheinfo or --info-only @@ -208,13 +206,13 @@ back on 3-way merge. . mode SP type SP sha1 TAB path + -The second format is to stuff 'git-ls-tree' output +The second format is to stuff 'git ls-tree' output into the index file. . mode SP sha1 SP stage TAB path + This format is to put higher order stages into the -index file and matches 'git-ls-files --stage' output. +index file and matches 'git ls-files --stage' output. To place a higher stage entry to the index, the path should first be removed by feeding a mode=0 entry for the path, and @@ -266,13 +264,15 @@ tree files, you have to explicitly tell git about it by dropping "assume unchanged" bit, either before or after you modify them. In order to set "assume unchanged" bit, use `--assume-unchanged` -option. To unset, use `--no-assume-unchanged`. +option. To unset, use `--no-assume-unchanged`. To see which files +have the "assume unchanged" bit set, use `git ls-files -v` +(see linkgit:git-ls-files[1]). The command looks at `core.ignorestat` configuration variable. When this is true, paths updated with `git update-index paths...` and paths updated with other git commands that update both index and -working tree (e.g. 'git-apply --index', 'git-checkout-index -u', -and 'git-read-tree -u') are automatically marked as "assume +working tree (e.g. 'git apply --index', 'git checkout-index -u', +and 'git read-tree -u') are automatically marked as "assume unchanged". Note that "assume unchanged" bit is *not* set if `git update-index --refresh` finds the working tree file matches the index (use `git update-index --really-refresh` if you want @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ unreliable, this should be set to 'false' (see linkgit:git-config[1]). This causes the command to ignore differences in file modes recorded in the index and the file mode on the filesystem if they differ only on executable bit. On such an unfortunate filesystem, you may -need to use 'git-update-index --chmod='. +need to use 'git update-index --chmod='. Quite similarly, if `core.symlinks` configuration variable is set to 'false' (see linkgit:git-config[1]), symbolic links are checked out @@ -365,16 +365,8 @@ ctime for marking files processed) (see linkgit:git-config[1]). SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-config[1], -linkgit:git-add[1] - - -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. +linkgit:git-add[1], +linkgit:git-ls-files[1] GIT --- |