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| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/checkout-index.c | 32 |
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diff --git a/builtin/checkout-index.c b/builtin/checkout-index.c index f1fec24745..c16d82b7de 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout-index.c +++ b/builtin/checkout-index.c @@ -3,38 +3,6 @@ * * Copyright (C) 2005 Linus Torvalds * - * Careful: order of argument flags does matter. For example, - * - * 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 "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" thing is that - * from scripts you are supposed to be able to do things like - * - * find . -name '*.h' -print0 | xargs -0 git checkout-index -f -- - * - * or: - * - * find . -name '*.h' -print0 | git checkout-index -f -z --stdin - * - * 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. - * - * Oh, and the "--" is just a good idea when you know the rest - * will be filenames. Just so that you wouldn't have a filename - * of "-a" causing problems (not possible in the above example, - * but get used to it in scripting!). */ #include "builtin.h" #include "cache.h" |