6 git-checkout-index - Copy files from the index to the working directory
11 'git-checkout-index' [-u] [-q] [-a] [-f] [-n] [--prefix=<string>]
12 [--stage=<number>] [--] <file>...
16 Will copy all files listed from the index to the working directory
17 (not overwriting existing files).
22 update stat information for the checked out entries in
26 be quiet if files exist or are not in the index
29 forces overwrite of existing files
32 checks out all files in the index. Cannot be used
33 together with explicit filenames.
36 Don't checkout new files, only refresh files already checked
40 When creating files, prepend <string> (usually a directory
41 including a trailing /)
44 Instead of checking out unmerged entries, copy out the
45 files from named stage. <number> must be between 1 and 3.
48 Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
50 The order of the flags used to matter, but not anymore.
52 Just doing `git-checkout-index` does nothing. You probably meant
53 `git-checkout-index -a`. And if you want to force it, you want
54 `git-checkout-index -f -a`.
56 Intuitiveness is not the goal here. Repeatability is. The reason for
57 the "no arguments means no work" behavior is that from scripts you are
58 supposed to be able to do:
61 $ find . -name '*.h' -print0 | xargs -0 git-checkout-index -f --
64 which will force all existing `*.h` files to be replaced with their
65 cached copies. If an empty command line implied "all", then this would
66 force-refresh everything in the index, which was not the point.
68 The `--` is just a good idea when you know the rest will be filenames;
69 it will prevent problems with a filename of, for example, `-a`.
70 Using `--` is probably a good policy in scripts.
75 To update and refresh only the files already checked out::
78 $ git-checkout-index -n -f -a && git-update-index --ignore-missing --refresh
81 Using `git-checkout-index` to "export an entire tree"::
82 The prefix ability basically makes it trivial to use
83 `git-checkout-index` as an "export as tree" function.
84 Just read the desired tree into the index, and do:
87 $ git-checkout-index --prefix=git-export-dir/ -a
90 `git-checkout-index` will "export" the index into the specified
93 The final "/" is important. The exported name is literally just
94 prefixed with the specified string. Contrast this with the
97 Export files with a prefix::
100 $ git-checkout-index --prefix=.merged- Makefile
103 This will check out the currently cached copy of `Makefile`
104 into the file `.merged-Makefile`.
109 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
114 Documentation by David Greaves,
115 Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
120 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite