Re: Dumb "continuous" commit dumb question

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Aug 19, 2008, 14:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20080819144853.GD20947@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <e1dab3980808190732i303f06ach50e36e13a624bd23@mail.gmail.com>

David Tweed <david.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:

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> What I do is have a script that runs every 10 minutes that stages
> files to the index and then, using the low-level git plumbing, creates
> tree and commit objects on a side branch "temp". With this you can
> easily commit to the main branch "main" PROVIDING you are commiting a
> superset of the changes you're storing to the side-branch.

Have the script use "export GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/temp-branch-index" so that it stages changes into an index which isn't the main one, and thus has no impact on the main branch. Thus you can still commit a subset of the temp branch at any time.

Actually you can do something like this:

	export GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/temp-branch-index &&
	cp .git/index $GIT_INDEX_FILE &&
	git add . &&
	git add -u &&
	git update-ref refs/heads/temp $(date | git commit-tree $(git write-tree) -p temp)

;-)

-- 
Shawn.