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 <h1>
 git-update-index(1) Manual Page
 </h1>
 <h2>NAME</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <p>git-update-index -
  Register file contents in the working tree to the index
 </p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div id="content">
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="verseblock">
 <pre class="content"><em>git update-index</em>
  [--add] [--remove | --force-remove] [--replace]
  [--refresh] [-q] [--unmerged] [--ignore-missing]
  [(--cacheinfo &lt;mode&gt; &lt;object&gt; &lt;file&gt;)&#8230;]
  [--chmod=(+|-)x]
  [--[no-]assume-unchanged]
  [--[no-]skip-worktree]
  [--ignore-submodules]
  [--really-refresh] [--unresolve] [--again | -g]
  [--info-only] [--index-info]
  [-z] [--stdin] [--index-version &lt;n&gt;]
  [--verbose]
  [--] [&lt;file&gt;&#8230;]</pre>
 <div class="attribution">
 </div></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Modifies the index or directory cache. Each file mentioned is updated
 into the index and any <em>unmerged</em> or <em>needs updating</em> state is
 cleared.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>See also <a href="git-add.html">git-add(1)</a> for a more user-friendly way to do some of
 the most common operations on the index.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>The way <em>git update-index</em> handles files it is told about can be modified
 using the various options:</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --add
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  If a specified file isn&#8217;t in the index already then it&#8217;s
  added.
  Default behaviour is to ignore new files.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --remove
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  If a specified file is in the index but is missing then it&#8217;s
  removed.
  Default behavior is to ignore removed file.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --refresh
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Looks at the current index and checks to see if merges or
  updates are needed by checking stat() information.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -q
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Quiet. If --refresh finds that the index needs an update, the
  default behavior is to error out. This option makes
  <em>git update-index</em> continue anyway.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --ignore-submodules
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Do not try to update submodules. This option is only respected
  when passed before --refresh.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --unmerged
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  If --refresh finds unmerged changes in the index, the default
  behavior is to error out. This option makes <em>git update-index</em>
  continue anyway.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --ignore-missing
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Ignores missing files during a --refresh
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --cacheinfo &lt;mode&gt; &lt;object&gt; &lt;path&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Directly insert the specified info into the index.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --index-info
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Read index information from stdin.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --chmod=(+|-)x
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Set the execute permissions on the updated files.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --[no-]assume-unchanged
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  When these flags are specified, the object names recorded
  for the paths are not updated. Instead, these options
  set and unset the "assume unchanged" bit for the
  paths. When the "assume unchanged" bit is on, Git stops
  checking the working tree files for possible
  modifications, so you need to manually unset the bit to
  tell Git when you change the working tree file. This is
  sometimes helpful when working with a big project on a
  filesystem that has very slow lstat(2) system call
  (e.g. cifs).
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>This option can be also used as a coarse file-level mechanism
 to ignore uncommitted changes in tracked files (akin to what
 <code>.gitignore</code> does for untracked files).
 Git will fail (gracefully) in case it needs to modify this file
 in the index e.g. when merging in a commit;
 thus, in case the assumed-untracked file is changed upstream,
 you will need to handle the situation manually.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --really-refresh
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Like <em>--refresh</em>, but checks stat information unconditionally,
  without regard to the "assume unchanged" setting.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --[no-]skip-worktree
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  When one of these flags is specified, the object name recorded
  for the paths are not updated. Instead, these options
  set and unset the "skip-worktree" bit for the paths. See
  section "Skip-worktree bit" below for more information.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -g
 </dt>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --again
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Runs <em>git update-index</em> itself on the paths whose index
  entries are different from those from the <code>HEAD</code> commit.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --unresolve
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Restores the <em>unmerged</em> or <em>needs updating</em> state of a
  file during a merge if it was cleared by accident.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --info-only
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Do not create objects in the object database for all
  &lt;file&gt; arguments that follow this flag; just insert
  their object IDs into the index.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --force-remove
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Remove the file from the index even when the working directory
  still has such a file. (Implies --remove.)
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --replace
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  By default, when a file <code>path</code> exists in the index,
  <em>git update-index</em> refuses an attempt to add <code>path/file</code>.
  Similarly if a file <code>path/file</code> exists, a file <code>path</code>
  cannot be added. With --replace flag, existing entries
  that conflict with the entry being added are
  automatically removed with warning messages.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --stdin
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Instead of taking list of paths from the command line,
  read list of paths from the standard input. Paths are
  separated by LF (i.e. one path per line) by default.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --verbose
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Report what is being added and removed from index.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --index-version &lt;n&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Write the resulting index out in the named on-disk format version.
  Supported versions are 2, 3 and 4. The current default version is 2
  or 3, depending on whether extra features are used, such as
  <code>git add -N</code>.
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Version 4 performs a simple pathname compression that reduces index
 size by 30%-50% on large repositories, which results in faster load
 time. Version 4 is relatively young (first released in in 1.8.0 in
 October 2012). Other Git implementations such as JGit and libgit2
 may not support it yet.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -z
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Only meaningful with <code>--stdin</code> or <code>--index-info</code>; paths are
  separated with NUL character instead of LF.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 &lt;file&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Files to act on.
  Note that files beginning with <em>.</em> are discarded. This includes
  <code>./file</code> and <code>dir/./file</code>. If you don&#8217;t want this, then use
  cleaner names.
  The same applies to directories ending <em>/</em> and paths with <em>//</em>
 </p>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_using_refresh">Using --refresh</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p><em>--refresh</em> does not calculate a new sha1 file or bring the index
 up-to-date for mode/content changes. But what it <strong>does</strong> do is to
 "re-match" the stat information of a file with the index, so that you
 can refresh the index for a file that hasn&#8217;t been changed but where
 the stat entry is out of date.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>For example, you&#8217;d want to do this after doing a <em>git read-tree</em>, to link
 up the stat index details with the proper files.</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_using_cacheinfo_or_info_only">Using --cacheinfo or --info-only</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p><em>--cacheinfo</em> is used to register a file that is not in the
 current working directory. This is useful for minimum-checkout
 merging.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>To pretend you have a file with mode and sha1 at path, say:</p></div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code>$ git update-index --cacheinfo mode sha1 path</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p><em>--info-only</em> is used to register files without placing them in the object
 database. This is useful for status-only repositories.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Both <em>--cacheinfo</em> and <em>--info-only</em> behave similarly: the index is updated
 but the object database isn&#8217;t. <em>--cacheinfo</em> is useful when the object is
 in the database but the file isn&#8217;t available locally. <em>--info-only</em> is
 useful when the file is available, but you do not wish to update the
 object database.</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_using_index_info">Using --index-info</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p><code>--index-info</code> is a more powerful mechanism that lets you feed
 multiple entry definitions from the standard input, and designed
 specifically for scripts. It can take inputs of three formats:</p></div>
 <div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
 <li>
 <p>
 mode SP sha1 TAB path
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>The first format is what "git-apply --index-info"
 reports, and used to reconstruct a partial tree
 that is used for phony merge base tree when falling
 back on 3-way merge.</p></div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 mode SP type SP sha1 TAB path
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>The second format is to stuff <em>git ls-tree</em> output
 into the index file.</p></div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 mode SP sha1 SP stage TAB path
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>This format is to put higher order stages into the
 index file and matches <em>git ls-files --stage</em> output.</p></div>
 </li>
 </ol></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>To place a higher stage entry to the index, the path should
 first be removed by feeding a mode=0 entry for the path, and
 then feeding necessary input lines in the third format.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>For example, starting with this index:</p></div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code>$ git ls-files -s
 100644 8a1218a1024a212bb3db30becd860315f9f3ac52 0 frotz</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>you can feed the following input to <code>--index-info</code>:</p></div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code>$ git update-index --index-info
 0 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 frotz
 100644 8a1218a1024a212bb3db30becd860315f9f3ac52 1 frotz
 100755 8a1218a1024a212bb3db30becd860315f9f3ac52 2 frotz</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>The first line of the input feeds 0 as the mode to remove the
 path; the SHA-1 does not matter as long as it is well formatted.
 Then the second and third line feeds stage 1 and stage 2 entries
 for that path. After the above, we would end up with this:</p></div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code>$ git ls-files -s
 100644 8a1218a1024a212bb3db30becd860315f9f3ac52 1 frotz
 100755 8a1218a1024a212bb3db30becd860315f9f3ac52 2 frotz</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_using_8220_assume_unchanged_8221_bit">Using &#8220;assume unchanged&#8221; bit</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Many operations in Git depend on your filesystem to have an
 efficient <code>lstat(2)</code> implementation, so that <code>st_mtime</code>
 information for working tree files can be cheaply checked to see
 if the file contents have changed from the version recorded in
 the index file. Unfortunately, some filesystems have
 inefficient <code>lstat(2)</code>. If your filesystem is one of them, you
 can set "assume unchanged" bit to paths you have not changed to
 cause Git not to do this check. Note that setting this bit on a
 path does not mean Git will check the contents of the file to
 see if it has changed&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;it makes Git to omit any checking and
 assume it has <strong>not</strong> changed. When you make changes to working
 tree files, you have to explicitly tell Git about it by dropping
 "assume unchanged" bit, either before or after you modify them.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>In order to set "assume unchanged" bit, use <code>--assume-unchanged</code>
 option. To unset, use <code>--no-assume-unchanged</code>. To see which files
 have the "assume unchanged" bit set, use <code>git ls-files -v</code>
 (see <a href="git-ls-files.html">git-ls-files(1)</a>).</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>The command looks at <code>core.ignorestat</code> configuration variable. When
 this is true, paths updated with <code>git update-index paths...</code> and
 paths updated with other Git commands that update both index and
 working tree (e.g. <em>git apply --index</em>, <em>git checkout-index -u</em>,
 and <em>git read-tree -u</em>) are automatically marked as "assume
 unchanged". Note that "assume unchanged" bit is <strong>not</strong> set if
 <code>git update-index --refresh</code> finds the working tree file matches
 the index (use <code>git update-index --really-refresh</code> if you want
 to mark them as "assume unchanged").</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_examples">Examples</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>To update and refresh only the files already checked out:</p></div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code>$ git checkout-index -n -f -a &amp;&amp; git update-index --ignore-missing --refresh</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 On an inefficient filesystem with <code>core.ignorestat</code> set
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre><code>$ git update-index --really-refresh <b>&lt;1&gt;</b>
 $ git update-index --no-assume-unchanged foo.c <b>&lt;2&gt;</b>
 $ git diff --name-only <b>&lt;3&gt;</b>
 $ edit foo.c
 $ git diff --name-only <b>&lt;4&gt;</b>
 M foo.c
 $ git update-index foo.c <b>&lt;5&gt;</b>
 $ git diff --name-only <b>&lt;6&gt;</b>
 $ edit foo.c
 $ git diff --name-only <b>&lt;7&gt;</b>
 $ git update-index --no-assume-unchanged foo.c <b>&lt;8&gt;</b>
 $ git diff --name-only <b>&lt;9&gt;</b>
 M foo.c</code></pre>
 </div></div>
 <div class="colist arabic"><ol>
 <li>
 <p>
 forces lstat(2) to set "assume unchanged" bits for paths that match index.
 </p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 mark the path to be edited.
 </p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 this does lstat(2) and finds index matches the path.
 </p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 this does lstat(2) and finds index does <strong>not</strong> match the path.
 </p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 registering the new version to index sets "assume unchanged" bit.
 </p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 and it is assumed unchanged.
 </p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 even after you edit it.
 </p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 you can tell about the change after the fact.
 </p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 now it checks with lstat(2) and finds it has been changed.
 </p>
 </li>
 </ol></div>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_skip_worktree_bit">Skip-worktree bit</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Skip-worktree bit can be defined in one (long) sentence: When reading
 an entry, if it is marked as skip-worktree, then Git pretends its
 working directory version is up to date and read the index version
 instead.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>To elaborate, "reading" means checking for file existence, reading
 file attributes or file content. The working directory version may be
 present or absent. If present, its content may match against the index
 version or not. Writing is not affected by this bit, content safety
 is still first priority. Note that Git <em>can</em> update working directory
 file, that is marked skip-worktree, if it is safe to do so (i.e.
 working directory version matches index version)</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Although this bit looks similar to assume-unchanged bit, its goal is
 different from assume-unchanged bit&#8217;s. Skip-worktree also takes
 precedence over assume-unchanged bit when both are set.</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_configuration">Configuration</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>The command honors <code>core.filemode</code> configuration variable. If
 your repository is on a filesystem whose executable bits are
 unreliable, this should be set to <em>false</em> (see <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>).
 This causes the command to ignore differences in file modes recorded
 in the index and the file mode on the filesystem if they differ only on
 executable bit. On such an unfortunate filesystem, you may
 need to use <em>git update-index --chmod=</em>.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Quite similarly, if <code>core.symlinks</code> configuration variable is set
 to <em>false</em> (see <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>), symbolic links are checked out
 as plain files, and this command does not modify a recorded file mode
 from symbolic link to regular file.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>The command looks at <code>core.ignorestat</code> configuration variable. See
 <em>Using "assume unchanged" bit</em> section above.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>The command also looks at <code>core.trustctime</code> configuration variable.
 It can be useful when the inode change time is regularly modified by
 something outside Git (file system crawlers and backup systems use
 ctime for marking files processed) (see <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>).</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>,
 <a href="git-add.html">git-add(1)</a>,
 <a href="git-ls-files.html">git-ls-files(1)</a></p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
 </div>
 </div>
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