Re: [PATCH 5/9] update-index: add --checkout/--no-checkout to update CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 19, 2008, 13:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20081119130223.GA27893@segfault.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v4p24tq59.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:18:10PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Having said all that, I wouldn't suggest redoing the patch using >>
> redirection.  But change from "touch 1 nondigit" to "touch nondigit 1"
> is a bit too subtle to my taste.  Let's write it this way instead:

Yes, I also dislike the subtlety, but my "obvious" idea was something like:

  for i in 1 2 sub/1 sub/2; do
    touch $i
  done

which just seemed clunky. But:

> -	touch 1 2 sub/1 sub/2 &&
> +	touch ./1 ./2 sub/1 sub/2 &&

this is less clunky, and I have confirmed that it solves the problem. I just wasn't clever enough to think of it in the first place. ;)

-Peff