Re: git pull a subtree, embedded trees

From: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Date: Sep 18, 2006, 05:57 UTC
Message-ID: <450E3538.4010209@sgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060913150028.GB29608@spearce.org>

Hi Shawn,

Shawn Pearce wrote:

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> Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> wrote:
>> I've written a simple small program to dump out the index
>> entries (cache entries).
> 
> `git-ls-files --stage` also dumps a number of those details, though
> it doesn't dump every available field.
>

Thanks, that's handy. However, when going through the core-tutorial (copying repository section) and populating the index from the .git objects using git-read-tree, it was nice to see all the stat fields using my program. These fields were empty at that stage, of course, (it was nice to see it) until I had populated the workarea using git-checkout-index. But generally, git-ls-files --stage would be fine.

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>> I just want to see what is exactly stored in the .git
>> binary files and how they change when I do various git
>> operations.
> 
> You may want to review some of the material in
> Documentation/core-tutorial.txt and Documentation/technical.
> These documents try to describe some of the formats but reviewing
> them now it looks like there's still some additional information
> that could be written down.
>

Thanks. I've been going through the core-tutorial. It's great.

Cheers, Tim.