From: David Lloyd <david.lloyd@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:15:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Produce contents of index with existing directory as cache
Message-ID: <CANghgrS9hZyA4vWU=4PZuYue3iLsLx7ObbT_VgRGSXpACwNkcg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5a9e4efd-8c48-487e-4a9f-9362a944c992@redhat.com>

git reset --hard ?

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> Is there a variant of “git checkout-index” which will produce the
> existing index contents, like “git checkout-index” would do with an
> empty directory, but can reuse an existing directory tree, to avoid
> writing all files from scratch?
>
> I'm writing some analysis scripts which need to change a checked-out
> working tree.  Right now I'm throwing away the tree after making the
> changes and create the next tree (which is expected to be quite similar
> in contents) from scratch, starting with an empty directory.  This is
> quite slow.
>
> Thanks,
> Florian



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