Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 10, 2012, 19:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2NzPw+GYKk5s7UUo8uRWob=K9nedcB+xP85rcyM5WPrQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2txsyqwdi.fsf@igel.home>

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> Unknown <unknown@unknown.invalid> writes:

Unknown Invalid? Please don't change the original email, makes it harder for other people to reply.

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>> I need a command or command sequence that will commit an entire file
>> tree to a repository...
>>
>> (a) Allowing me to specify committer and author metadata, and
>>
>> (b) deleting paths not present in the previous commit on the current
>> branch, and
>>
>> (c) allowing me to specify merge links from other previous commits.
>>
>> git commit -a passes (a) and (b) but not (c).
>
> git commit -a won't add new files, so you probably want to use git add
> -A && git commit.  I'm not quite sure what you mean with "merge links",
> but if you want to create merge commits the you'll need to resort to
> plumbing: git add -A && git write-tree && git commit-tree && git
> update-ref.

I've done something similar, except that I used git hash-object instead of git commit-tree so that I can specify every single detail about the commit object.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras