From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:25:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix cg-commit -p to not touch the working tree
Message-ID: <7v8xf4atoe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070212031923.D20B913A382@magnus.utsl.gen.nz>

Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz> writes:

> Previously, the working tree state was modified with `patch', which
> was a fragile operation.  Do everything with `git-apply --cached
> --index' instead.

I do not use Cogito so I do not know what behaviour is wanted
here, but '--cached --index' is same as saying just '--cached'
as far as I know.  It will patch against the index and should
not touch working tree.  If the original used 'patch' to apply,
I suspect it wanted to touch the working tree (and possibly, it
wanted to leave the index alone?), so --cached might be
completely wrong thing to use here?