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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-09-14 20:45:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-09-14 20:45:03 -0700 |
| commit | 67117596173cc49b0ca4b8b5739c5fd794a7022a (patch) | |
| tree | fde0d393ba0cc8eacce83e1f5da70d0b4dc15842 /Documentation | |
| parent | 1403db49b80630cf8c36ba3e8b0f085ea0ab8286 (diff) | |
| parent | 8300016e0ab6959c4b45f64ec585832726430fc7 (diff) | |
| download | git-67117596173cc49b0ca4b8b5739c5fd794a7022a.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'jc/maint-checkout-fileglob-doc' into maint-1.7.11
* jc/maint-checkout-fileglob-doc:
gitcli: contrast wildcard given to shell and to git
gitcli: formatting fix
Document file-glob for "git checkout -- '*.c'"
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitcli.txt | 19 |
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 11cc7f0588..7958a47006 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -367,6 +367,18 @@ $ git checkout hello.c <3> <2> take a file out of another commit <3> restore hello.c from the index + +If you want to check out _all_ C source files out of the index, +you can say ++ +------------ +$ git checkout -- '*.c' +------------ ++ +Note the quotes around `*.c`. The file `hello.c` will also be +checked out, even though it is no longer in the working tree, +because the file globbing is used to match entries in the index +(not in the working tree by the shell). ++ If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch. You should instead write: diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt index 3e72a5d68e..f6ba90c2da 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt @@ -37,11 +37,28 @@ arguments. Here are the rules: file called HEAD in your work tree, `git diff HEAD` is ambiguous, and you have to say either `git diff HEAD --` or `git diff -- HEAD` to disambiguate. - ++ When writing a script that is expected to handle random user-input, it is a good practice to make it explicit which arguments are which by placing disambiguating `--` at appropriate places. + * Many commands allow wildcards in paths, but you need to protect + them from getting globbed by the shell. These two mean different + things: ++ +-------------------------------- +$ git checkout -- *.c +$ git checkout -- \*.c +-------------------------------- ++ +The former lets your shell expand the fileglob, and you are asking +the dot-C files in your working tree to be overwritten with the version +in the index. The latter passes the `*.c` to Git, and you are asking +the paths in the index that match the pattern to be checked out to your +working tree. After running `git add hello.c; rm hello.c`, you will _not_ +see `hello.c` in your working tree with the former, but with the latter +you will. + Here are the rules regarding the "flags" that you should follow when you are scripting git: |