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Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] update-index: add --clear option

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Christopher Tiwald <christiwald@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 17, 2012, 18:36 UTC
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Christopher Tiwald <christiwald@gmail.com> wrote:

> At the very least I can give this patch series a go this evening. I'm in
> the process of combining 40 highly-intertwined, nested repositories into
> one, and should be able to test it under the conditions outlined in the
> updated example.

This worked great for me, at least in the case of adding trees to subdirectories. Fwiw, I found the newer, patched example a little easier to parse, but I also had spent a while figuring out what the original version did.

-- Christopher Tiwald

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  7. 2/2 docs/filter-branch: clean up newsubdir exampleJeff King, Apr 16, 2012
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