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Re: [RFC/PATCH] shortstatus v1

From
Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date
Feb 11, 2009, 00:08 UTC
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<20090211090856.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
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Quoting Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik.sverdrup@gmail.com>:
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>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> > Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> > How is it different from "git stash create"?
>>
>> Git stash doesn't touch untracked files, whereas git snapshot would.
>> Take another closer look at the table in the original post titled
>> "What are the differences between 'git stash' and 'git snapshot'?"
>>
>> -Geoffrey Lee
>
> I'm understanding this just as I read this, but it seems that implementing a
> git snapshot (I'm myself interested), could be done quickly with a new git.
> (When was git stash create introduced? I don't know it?)
I did the initial git-stash at the end of June 2007; git-stash create was done by Junio about a week later and was released as a part of v1.5.4.
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> Something like this:
> cp .git/index .git/tmp-index
> GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/tmp-index
> git add -N .
> git stash create
>
> So we use add -N to put all files into tracked but unstaged by default, but we
> keep our old index. Now stash is ready to save off the working directory, and
> further logic has to be applied on the returned commit to save it off..
git-add -N came much later, late August 2008, and is available only in v1.6.1 and later.
I think you want to export GIT_INDEX_FILE you set to the temporary file before running these two commands.
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Nanako Shiraishi
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