Re: How do I clear the directory cache

> eschvoca <eschvoca@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Yes, ... is what I want (how do I do this with pure git?).
>
> How do you do *what* with pure git is something not clear to me,
> so let me try to rephrase you and see if I understood what you
> want correctly, in pure git terms:
>
>  0. Your last commit (.git/HEAD), your index file (.git/index)
>     and the files in your working tree are in sync to begin
>     with.
>
>  1. Then you do random changes in the working tree (add, modify,
>     remove) and do git-update-index on them without making a
>     commit.  If your index file is fully in sync with your
>     working tree, git-diff-files would say nothing after this.
>     If you did git-update-index on some but not all, then
>     git-diff-files would report unrecorded changes.
>
>  2. But you want to revert these changes to the index file.  By
>     "clearing the directory cache", you mean you want the index
>     file to have what it had in step 0, but you want to keep
>     what is on the filesystem intact.
>
> If that is what you want, then:
>
>         $ git-read-tree HEAD
>         $ git-update-index --refresh >/dev/null

> would reset the index to the tree recorded in your last commit.
> You can see that
>
>         $ git diff --name-status --cached HEAD
>
> does not report any difference between HEAD and your index, while
>
>         $ git diff --name-status
>
> shows the differences between your index and your working tree.
>
> HOWEVER, the index file does not record "intent to add", so you
> would not see files you added in step 1. mentioned in the output
> of the last command.
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