# [PATCH] checkout-index: remove obsolete comment

2 messages from 2011-08-17 to 2011-08-17. Participants: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/28140

## Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, 2011-08-17 12:22

Subject: [PATCH] checkout-index: remove obsolete comment
Message-ID: <1313583733-7514-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1313583733-7514-1-git-send-email-pclouds%40gmail.com

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The first paragraph about flag order is no longer true and is
mentioned in git-checkout-index.txt. The rest is also mentioned in
git-checkout-index.txt.

Remove it and keep uptodate document in one place.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/checkout-index.c |   32 --------------------------------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/checkout-index.c b/builtin/checkout-index.c
index f1fec24..c16d82b 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout-index.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout-index.c
@@ -3,38 +3,6 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2005 Linus Torvalds
  *
- * Careful: order of argument flags does matter. For example,
- *
- *	git checkout-index -a -f file.c
- *
- * Will first check out all files listed in the cache (but not
- * overwrite any old ones), and then force-checkout "file.c" a
- * second time (ie that one _will_ overwrite any old contents
- * with the same filename).
- *
- * Also, just doing "git checkout-index" does nothing. You probably
- * meant "git checkout-index -a". And if you want to force it, you
- * want "git checkout-index -f -a".
- *
- * Intuitiveness is not the goal here. Repeatability is. The
- * reason for the "no arguments means no work" thing is that
- * from scripts you are supposed to be able to do things like
- *
- *	find . -name '*.h' -print0 | xargs -0 git checkout-index -f --
- *
- * or:
- *
- *	find . -name '*.h' -print0 | git checkout-index -f -z --stdin
- *
- * which will force all existing *.h files to be replaced with
- * their cached copies. If an empty command line implied "all",
- * then this would force-refresh everything in the cache, which
- * was not the point.
- *
- * Oh, and the "--" is just a good idea when you know the rest
- * will be filenames. Just so that you wouldn't have a filename
- * of "-a" causing problems (not possible in the above example,
- * but get used to it in scripting!).
  */
 #include "builtin.h"
 #include "cache.h"
-- 
1.7.4.74.g639db

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## Junio C Hamano, 2011-08-17 17:40

Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout-index: remove obsolete comment
Message-ID: <7v62lwey2p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v62lwey2p.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <1313583733-7514-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

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Thanks; this will go traight to 'maint'.

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