Re: checkout-cache -f: a better way?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 20, 2005, 23:51 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505201641160.2206@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505201626560.2206@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Show 6 quoted lines

> 
> In other words, those lines in your script should look like this:
> 
> 	git-read-tree -m HEAD && git-checkout-cache -q -f -u -a
> 
> and you'll be a lot happier.

Btw, I do realize that I'm a total wiener, and that my inability to use "getopt_long()" is shameful and stupid.

What can I say? I'm easily confused, and besides, I really seldom program in user mode.

So if somebody were to getopt'ify git, _without_ adding crapola like autoconf (which probably implies that git would just require GNU getopt), and others agree that it's ok to just say that we expect getopt_long() to exist, then I'd not have any objections to making the above just be

	git-read-tree -m HEAD | git-checkout-cache -fqua

(to which the beavis-and-butthead in me says "hehhehhehh.. He said fqua. Hehhehh. fire fire fire.")

		Linus