From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:17:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Any way to edit the file in index directly?
Message-ID: <46dff0320904072117x712f29dj6854ee7219aede9d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904080434240.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:03:03AM +0800, Ping Yin wrote:
>>
>> > There seems to be a patch for this ( add -e?), but i forget where to
>> > find it.
>>
>> "add -p" has an "e"dit option for editing the patch. I don't recall any
>> way of directly editing the content.
>
> I posted a patch for "git add --edit", which allows you to edit the _diff_
> between the working directory and the index, and which applies the result
> using apply --recount.
>
> But that has nothing to do with "editing the index directly".
>
> But you might want to use a combination of "hash-object -w --stdin" and
> "update-index --cacheinfo".  IOW something like
>
>        sha1=$(echo Hello | git hash-object -w --stdin) &&
>        git update-index --cacheinfo 0644 $sha1 my-file
>
> However, Ping, I _strongly_ suspect an X-Y problem here.  IOW I think you
> are asking about specifics of a certain _solution_, while we probably have
> a better solution for your particular _problem_.
>

Thanks. I think 'add --edit' is just what i meant by saying 'add -e'.
I'll have it a try.