From: Brian Gerst Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:41:32 GMT Subject: Re: GIT - breaking backward compatibility Message-ID: <432F92FC.4000405@didntduck.org> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Brian Gerst wrote: > >>Essentially what I want to do is: >> >>git-ls-files --others | xargs git-update-index --add -- >>git-ls-files --deleted | xargs git-update-index --remove -- >>git-ls-files --modified | xargs git-update-index -- >> >>This will completely resync the index and cache to the working tree >>state after applying a patch. > > > It will also be extremely inefficient. > > If you really have a _patch_, then "git-apply --index" is what you want to > apply it with. It applies a patch _and_ updates the index as appropriate. > It's how git-applymbox can apply hundreds of patches in short order. > > Linus > That would be great, if git-apply accepted fuzzy patches. I am trying to apply the -mm series patches, which often are slightly out of date. Andrew doesn't rebase them until they won't apply at all. -- Brian Gerst