From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:06:17 GMT
Subject: Re: StGIT refreshes all added files - limitation of git-write-tree?
Message-ID: <1139994377.5796.30.camel@dv>
In-Reply-To: <7vacctnnx4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 22:20 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Or maybe git-write-tree and other utilities could be changed to work on
> > a copy of the index file?  I would prefer not to move the
> > actual .git/index away, but to make a copy for the current "stg refresh"
> > operation.
> 
> There is no need to change the core side.  
> 
> 	GIT_INDEX_FILE=temporary-index git-write-tree
> 
> would do the job.  See the current round of git-commit and how
> it handles "git commit --only these files" case.

Thank you!  It's comforting to know that the issue is not unique to
StGIT.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin