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Re: git pull a subtree, embedded trees

From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Sep 13, 2006, 15:00 UTC
Message-ID
<20060913150028.GB29608@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<4508020F.2050604@sgi.com>
Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> wrote:
> I've written a simple small program to dump out the index
> entries (cache entries).

`git-ls-files --stage` also dumps a number of those details, though it doesn't dump every available field.

> I just want to see what is exactly stored in the .git
> binary files and how they change when I do various git
> operations.

You may want to review some of the material in Documentation/core-tutorial.txt and Documentation/technical. These documents try to describe some of the formats but reviewing them now it looks like there's still some additional information that could be written down.

-- 
Shawn.
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