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Re: GIT - breaking backward compatibility

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 20, 2005, 04:33 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0509192131260.2553@g5.osdl.org>
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On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Brian Gerst wrote:
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> 
> Essentially what I want to do is:
> 
> git-ls-files --others | xargs git-update-index --add --
> git-ls-files --deleted | xargs git-update-index --remove --
> git-ls-files --modified | xargs git-update-index --
> 
> This will completely resync the index and cache to the working tree 
> state after applying a patch.
It will also be extremely inefficient.

If you really have a _patch_, then "git-apply --index" is what you want to apply it with. It applies a patch _and_ updates the index as appropriate. It's how git-applymbox can apply hundreds of patches in short order.

		Linus
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  1. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2005
  2. Brian GerstSep 20, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2005
  4. Brian GerstSep 20, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2005
  6. Petr BaudisSep 20, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2005
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  10. Petr BaudisSep 22, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 23, 2005
  12. Sven VerdoolaegeSep 20, 2005

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