From: Jan Hudec Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:05:32 GMT Subject: Re: How to bypass the post-commit hook? Message-ID: <20071231170532.GB9214@efreet.light.src> In-Reply-To: <46dff0320712310526l2b801ed7xc52b7aae2d65048e@mail.gmail.com> On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 21:26:21 +0800, Ping Yin wrote: > On Dec 31, 2007 6:55 PM, Jan Hudec wrote: > > Note, that you can -- and should -- add the foo.css to the commit. But the > > file might contain other changes in tree, that are not about to be commited, > > so prefered way would be to get the content from the index, modify that and > > update the index manually (with git update-index). > > If pre-commit has modified files to be commited, it will abort this > commit and give a message to direct the user to commit again > with/without the changed content. > > AFAIK, git add -i can add selected chunk to the index. As you said, > can git-update-index also do this job? git update-index is the underlying plumbing for git add/git rm. However, you should change foo.css in index even if the working tree copy does not match it and is not selected for commit. Only way I see to do that is to prepare a patch and apply it to both the working tree (git apply) and to the index (git apply --cached). It will probably work for you without such finesse, you will just have to be aware of it's quirks. -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec