1git-check-files(1) 2================== 3v0.1, May 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-check-files - Verify a list of files are up-to-date 8 9 10 11SYNOPSIS 12-------- 13'git-check-files' <file>... 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17Check that a list of files are up-to-date between the filesystem and 18the cache. Used to verify a patch target before doing a patch. 19 20Files that do not exist on the filesystem are considered up-to-date 21(whether or not they are in the cache). 22 23Emits an error message on failure: 24 25preparing to update existing file <file> not in cache:: 26 <file> exists but is not in the cache 27 28preparing to update file <file> not uptodate in cache:: 29 <file> on disk is not up-to-date with the cache 30 31Exits with a status code indicating success if all files are 32up-to-date. 33 34See Also 35-------- 36link:git-update-cache.html[git-update-cache] 37 38 39Author 40------ 41Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 42 43Documentation 44-------------- 45Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 46 47GIT 48--- 49Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 50