-To update and refresh only the files already checked out:
-
- git-checkout-index -n -f -a && git-update-index --ignore-missing --refresh
-
-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!).
-
-The prefix ability basically makes it trivial to use
-git-checkout-index as an "export as tree" function. Just read the
-desired tree into the index, and do a
+The `--` is just a good idea when you know the rest will be filenames;
+it will prevent problems with a filename of, for example, `-a`.
+Using `--` is probably a good policy in scripts.