From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:06:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow updating the index from a pipe
Message-ID: <7vbqzpxwg2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512100145500.25300@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> In order to allow the index to be modified in simple ways without
> having a working tree, this adds an option to git-update-index which
> updates a single path with a mode of 100644 and reads the content from
> stdin.

I wonder ...

Could you do this with existing hash-object with update-index
--cache-info (or --index-info) please?  If you do not want a
temporary file and prefer piping contents into a command,
extending hash-object would be preferable.