format-patch: fix two-argument special case, and make it easier to pick single commits

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt
index bb15214c989b73f37c79fef027900393aed419fd..5bff4865f78101b0bb7df23b381f26d61a35a80a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 git-checkout-index(1)
 =====================
-v0.1, May 2005
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-checkout-index - Copy files from the cache to the working directory
+git-checkout-index - Copy files from the index to the working directory
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
@@ -14,26 +13,26 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Will copy all files listed from the cache to the working directory
+Will copy all files listed from the index to the working directory
 (not overwriting existing files).
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
--u::
+-u|--index::
        update stat information for the checked out entries in
-       the cache file.
+       the index file.
 
--q::
-       be quiet if files exist or are not in the cache
+-q|--quiet::
+       be quiet if files exist or are not in the index
 
--f::
+-f|--force::
        forces overwrite of existing files
 
--a::
-       checks out all files in the cache (will then continue to
-       process listed files).
+-a|--all::
+       checks out all files in the index.  Cannot be used
+       together with explicit filenames.
 
--n::
+-n|--no-create::
        Don't checkout new files, only refresh files already checked
        out.
 
@@ -44,15 +43,9 @@ OPTIONS
 --::
        Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
 
-Note that the order of the flags matters:
+The order of the flags used to matter, but not anymore.
 
-     git-checkout-index -a -f file.c
-
-will first check out all files listed in the cache (but not overwrite
-any old ones), and then force-checkout `file.c` a second time (ie that
-one *will* overwrite any old contents with the same filename).
-
-Also, just doing "git-checkout-index" does nothing. You probably meant
+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".
 
@@ -64,7 +57,7 @@ supposed to be able to do things like:
 
 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 cache, which was not the point.
+force-refresh everything in the index, which was not the point.
 
 To update and refresh only the files already checked out:
 
@@ -78,12 +71,12 @@ scripting!).
 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 a
-  
+
         git-checkout-index --prefix=git-export-dir/ -a
-  
-and git-checkout-index will "export" the cache into the specified
+
+and git-checkout-index will "export" the index into the specified
 directory.
-  
+
 NOTE The final "/" is important. The exported name is literally just
 prefixed with the specified string, so you can also do something like
 
@@ -102,5 +95,5 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite