From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: read-tree --prefix works with existing subtrees
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:50:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111231115056.GA11628@ecki.lan> (raw)
Since 34110cd4 (Make 'unpack_trees()' have a separate source and
destination index) it is no longer true that a subdirectory with
the same prefix must not exist.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
---
Documentation/git-read-tree.txt | 9 ++++-----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
index 5375549..a43e874 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
@@ -83,11 +83,10 @@ OPTIONS
--prefix=<prefix>/::
Keep the current index contents, and read the contents
- of the named tree-ish under the directory at `<prefix>`. The
- original index file cannot have anything at the path
- `<prefix>` itself, nor anything in the `<prefix>/`
- directory. Note that the `<prefix>/` value must end
- with a slash.
+ of the named tree-ish under the directory at `<prefix>`.
+ The command will refuse to overwrite entries that already
+ existed in the original index file. Note that the `<prefix>/`
+ value must end with a slash.
--exclude-per-directory=<gitignore>::
When running the command with `-u` and `-m` options, the
--
1.7.8
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