+<h2>Using --temp or --stage=all</h2>\r
+<div class="sectionbody">\r
+<p>When <tt>--temp</tt> is used (or implied by <tt>--stage=all</tt>)\r
+<tt>git-checkout-index</tt> will create a temporary file for each index\r
+entry being checked out. The index will not be updated with stat\r
+information. These options can be useful if the caller needs all\r
+stages of all unmerged entries so that the unmerged files can be\r
+processed by an external merge tool.</p>\r
+<p>A listing will be written to stdout providing the association of\r
+temporary file names to tracked path names. The listing format\r
+has two variations:</p>\r
+<ol>\r
+<li>\r
+<p>\r
+tempname TAB path RS\r
+</p>\r
+<p>The first format is what gets used when <tt>--stage</tt> is omitted or\r
+is not <tt>--stage=all</tt>. The field tempname is the temporary file\r
+name holding the file content and path is the tracked path name in\r
+the index. Only the requested entries are output.</p>\r
+</li>\r
+<li>\r
+<p>\r
+stage1temp SP stage2temp SP stage3tmp TAB path RS\r
+</p>\r
+<p>The second format is what gets used when <tt>--stage=all</tt>. The three\r
+stage temporary fields (stage1temp, stage2temp, stage3temp) list the\r
+name of the temporary file if there is a stage entry in the index\r
+or <tt>.</tt> if there is no stage entry. Paths which only have a stage 0\r
+entry will always be omitted from the output.</p>\r
+</li>\r
+</ol>\r
+<p>In both formats RS (the record separator) is newline by default\r
+but will be the null byte if -z was passed on the command line.\r
+The temporary file names are always safe strings; they will never\r
+contain directory separators or whitespace characters. The path\r
+field is always relative to the current directory and the temporary\r
+file names are always relative to the top level directory.</p>\r
+<p>If the object being copied out to a temporary file is a symbolic\r
+link the content of the link will be written to a normal file. It is\r
+up to the end-user or the Porcelain to make use of this information.</p>\r
+</div>\r