From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:14:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git push to a non-bare repository
Message-ID: <7vejnlna2z.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070319034755.GH20658@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

>   git-diff $old $new | git-apply --index ?
>
> If the patch does not apply, nothing gets updated.  If it does apply,
> the index is also updated and stat data updated.

And if you are only checking then perhaps instead of --index
use --check, so that the actual updates are deferred?