From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 06:20:23 GMT
Subject: Re: StGIT refreshes all added files - limitation of git-write-tree?
Message-ID: <7vacctnnx4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1139978528.28292.41.camel@dv>

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:

> Or maybe git-write-tree and other utilities could be changed to work on
> a copy of the index file?  I would prefer not to move the
> actual .git/index away, but to make a copy for the current "stg refresh"
> operation.

There is no need to change the core side.  

	GIT_INDEX_FILE=temporary-index git-write-tree

would do the job.  See the current round of git-commit and how
it handles "git commit --only these files" case.