Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sometimes it is useful to unpack the unmerged stage entries > to the same directory as the tracked file itself, but with > a suffix indicating which stage that version came from. > In many user interface level scripts this is being done > by git-unpack-file followed by creating the necessary > directory structure and then moving the file into the > directory with the requested name. It is now possible to > perform the same action for a larger set of files directly > through git-checkout-index. Junio mentioned in his ``What's in git.git'' email that he's not sure of this command line interface: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I am not sure about the command line interface of this. Would > it make more sense to checkout three stages in one pass? > > - checkout-index --suffix (Shawn Pearce) I thought about the same thing myself when I submitted the patch to the list. I probably should have talked a little bit about that in the email. :-) I thought about using instead: --stage=all --suffix1=\#1 --suffix2\=#2 --suffix3=\#3 but then thought that the performance gains achieved by only forking git-checkout-index once, scanning the index once, etc. were not that big of a difference compared to the rather horrible looking command line syntax that produced and required one to use. If anyone has any suggestions for these options, please pass them along. I'll rebuild the patch to pull all available stages if we can come up with a suitable way of describing such. -- Shawn. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html