From: Denis Bueno <dbueno@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:49:20 GMT
Subject: Re: git cherry-pick before archive
Message-ID: <6dbd4d000807111149s4fb661cak9fac152864260901@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807111944000.8950@racer>

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 14:46, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> BTW in your case, I would suggest this:
>
>        INDEX_FILE=.git/bla git read-tree HEAD &&
>        INDEX_FILE=.git/bla git apply --cached patchfile &&
>        INDEX_FILE=.git/bla git archive [...] &&
>        rm .git/bla
>
> IOW: Just use a temporary index for your work.

What is the rationale?  So I can relieve the assumption that the index is clean?

-- 
 Denis