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405 <h1>
406 git-checkout-index(1) Manual Page
407 </h1>
410 <p>git-checkout-index -
411 Copy files from the index to the working tree
412 </p>
413 </div>
414 </div>
418 <div class="verseblock-content"><em>git checkout-index</em> [-u] [-q] [-a] [-f] [-n] [--prefix=<string>]
420 [--temp]
421 [-z] [--stdin]
424 </div></div>
425 </div>
429 (not overwriting existing files).</p></div>
430 </div>
435 -u
436 </dt>
438 --index
439 </dt>
440 <dd>
441 <p>
442 update stat information for the checked out entries in
443 the index file.
444 </p>
445 </dd>
447 -q
448 </dt>
450 --quiet
451 </dt>
452 <dd>
453 <p>
454 be quiet if files exist or are not in the index
455 </p>
456 </dd>
458 -f
459 </dt>
461 --force
462 </dt>
463 <dd>
464 <p>
465 forces overwrite of existing files
466 </p>
467 </dd>
469 -a
470 </dt>
472 --all
473 </dt>
474 <dd>
475 <p>
476 checks out all files in the index. Cannot be used
477 together with explicit filenames.
478 </p>
479 </dd>
481 -n
482 </dt>
484 --no-create
485 </dt>
486 <dd>
487 <p>
488 Don’t checkout new files, only refresh files already checked
489 out.
490 </p>
491 </dd>
494 </dt>
495 <dd>
496 <p>
498 including a trailing /)
499 </p>
500 </dd>
503 </dt>
504 <dd>
505 <p>
506 Instead of checking out unmerged entries, copy out the
508 Note: --stage=all automatically implies --temp.
509 </p>
510 </dd>
512 --temp
513 </dt>
514 <dd>
515 <p>
516 Instead of copying the files to the working directory
517 write the content to temporary files. The temporary name
518 associations will be written to stdout.
519 </p>
520 </dd>
522 --stdin
523 </dt>
524 <dd>
525 <p>
526 Instead of taking list of paths from the command line,
527 read list of paths from the standard input. Paths are
528 separated by LF (i.e. one path per line) by default.
529 </p>
530 </dd>
532 -z
533 </dt>
534 <dd>
535 <p>
537 NUL character instead of LF.
538 </p>
539 </dd>
541 --
542 </dt>
543 <dd>
544 <p>
545 Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
546 </p>
547 </dd>
548 </dl></div>
550 <div class="paragraph"><p>Just doing <tt>git checkout-index</tt> does nothing. You probably meant
554 the "no arguments means no work" behavior is that from scripts you are
555 supposed to be able to do:</p></div>
559 </div></div>
560 <div class="paragraph"><p>which will force all existing <tt>*.h</tt> files to be replaced with their
561 cached copies. If an empty command line implied "all", then this would
562 force-refresh everything in the index, which was not the point. But
567 </div></div>
568 <div class="paragraph"><p>The <tt>--</tt> is just a good idea when you know the rest will be filenames;
571 </div>
576 entry being checked out. The index will not be updated with stat
577 information. These options can be useful if the caller needs all
578 stages of all unmerged entries so that the unmerged files can be
579 processed by an external merge tool.</p></div>
581 temporary file names to tracked path names. The listing format
582 has two variations:</p></div>
584 <li>
585 <p>
586 tempname TAB path RS
587 </p>
588 <div class="paragraph"><p>The first format is what gets used when <tt>--stage</tt> is omitted or
590 name holding the file content and path is the tracked path name in
591 the index. Only the requested entries are output.</p></div>
592 </li>
593 <li>
594 <p>
595 stage1temp SP stage2temp SP stage3tmp TAB path RS
596 </p>
597 <div class="paragraph"><p>The second format is what gets used when <tt>--stage=all</tt>. The three
598 stage temporary fields (stage1temp, stage2temp, stage3temp) list the
599 name of the temporary file if there is a stage entry in the index
601 entry will always be omitted from the output.</p></div>
602 </li>
603 </ol></div>
605 but will be the null byte if -z was passed on the command line.
606 The temporary file names are always safe strings; they will never
607 contain directory separators or whitespace characters. The path
608 field is always relative to the current directory and the temporary
609 file names are always relative to the top level directory.</p></div>
611 link the content of the link will be written to a normal file. It is
612 up to the end-user or the Porcelain to make use of this information.</p></div>
613 </div>
618 To update and refresh only the files already checked out
619 </dt>
620 <dd>
623 <pre><tt>$ git checkout-index -n -f -a && git update-index --ignore-missing --refresh</tt></pre>
624 </div></div>
625 </dd>
628 </dt>
629 <dd>
630 <p>
631 The prefix ability basically makes it trivial to use
633 Just read the desired tree into the index, and do:
634 </p>
638 </div></div>
639 <div class="paragraph"><p><tt>git checkout-index</tt> will "export" the index into the specified
640 directory.</p></div>
642 prefixed with the specified string. Contrast this with the
643 following example.</p></div>
644 </dd>
646 Export files with a prefix
647 </dt>
648 <dd>
652 </div></div>
655 </dd>
656 </dl></div>
657 </div>
660 <div class="paragraph"><p>Written by Linus Torvalds <<a href="mailto:torvalds@osdl.org">torvalds@osdl.org</a>></p></div>
661 </div>
665 Junio C Hamano and the git-list <<a href="mailto:git@vger.kernel.org">git@vger.kernel.org</a>>.</p></div>
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