The old example used --prefix=.../ to teach the reader that the trailing slash is important. This lesson just moved down to the next example, without a real example though. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Hello Junio, even if you revert 4465f410 (and add the tests) I'd prefer using --work-tree. Best regards Uwe Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt | 15 ++++++--------- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt index b1a8ce1..7c19351 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt @@ -143,21 +143,16 @@ $ git-checkout-index -n -f -a && git-update-index --ignore-missing --refresh ---------------- 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. - Just read the desired tree into the index, and do: + Just read the desired tree into the index, make sure + git-export-dir exists, and do: + ---------------- -$ git-checkout-index --prefix=git-export-dir/ -a +$ git --work-dir=git-export-dir checkout-index -a ---------------- + `git-checkout-index` will "export" the index into the specified directory. + -The final "/" is important. The exported name is literally just -prefixed with the specified string. Contrast this with the -following example. - Export files with a prefix:: + ---------------- @@ -165,7 +160,9 @@ $ git-checkout-index --prefix=.merged- Makefile ---------------- + This will check out the currently cached copy of `Makefile` -into the file `.merged-Makefile`. +into the file `.merged-Makefile`. The argument of --prefix is +literally just prefixed with the specified string, so if you want to +export to a directory you must end the prefix with a slash. Author -- 1.5.3.rc4.857.ge22ff - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
