Merge branch 'master' into js/diff-ni

* master: (201 commits)
  Documentation: link in 1.5.0.2 material to the top documentation page.
  Documentation: document remote.<name>.tagopt
  GIT 1.5.0.2
  git-remote: support remotes with a dot in the name
  Documentation: describe "-f/-t/-m" options to "git-remote add"
  diff --cc: fix display of symlink conflicts during a merge.
  merge-recursive: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
  merge-index: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
  diff --cached: give more sensible error message when HEAD is yet to be created.
  Update tests to use test-chmtime
  Add test-chmtime: a utility to change mtime on files
  Add Release Notes to prepare for 1.5.0.2
  Allow arbitrary number of arguments to git-pack-objects
  rerere: do not deal with symlinks.
  rerere: do not skip two conflicted paths next to each other.
  Don't modify CREDITS-FILE if it hasn't changed.
  diff-patch: Avoid emitting double-slashes in textual patch.
  Reword git-am 3-way fallback failure message.
  Limit filename for format-patch
  core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
  ...

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-checkout-index.c b/builtin-checkout-index.c
index b097c888a..afe4b0e45 100644
--- a/builtin-checkout-index.c
+++ b/builtin-checkout-index.c
@@ -223,12 +223,12 @@ int cmd_checkout_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			to_tempfile = 1;
 			continue;
 		}
-		if (!strncmp(arg, "--prefix=", 9)) {
+		if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--prefix=")) {
 			state.base_dir = arg+9;
 			state.base_dir_len = strlen(state.base_dir);
 			continue;
 		}
-		if (!strncmp(arg, "--stage=", 8)) {
+		if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--stage=")) {
 			if (!strcmp(arg + 8, "all")) {
 				to_tempfile = 1;
 				checkout_stage = CHECKOUT_ALL;