[--stage=<number>|all]
[--temp]
[-z] [--stdin]
- [--] [<file>]\*
+ [--] [<file>...]
DESCRIPTION
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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:
+since 'git checkout-index' accepts --stdin it would be faster to use:
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$ find . -name '*.h' -print0 | git checkout-index -f -z --stdin
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
+'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
$ git checkout-index -n -f -a && git update-index --ignore-missing --refresh
----------------
-Using 'git-checkout-index' to "export an entire tree"::
+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.
+ 'git checkout-index' as an "export as tree" function.
Just read the desired tree into the index, and do:
+
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This will check out the currently cached copy of `Makefile`
into the file `.merged-Makefile`.
-
-Author
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-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-
-Documentation
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-Documentation by David Greaves,
-Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
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GIT
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