From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:33:15 GMT Subject: Re: GIT - breaking backward compatibility Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <432F8C33.5080603@didntduck.org> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Brian Gerst wrote: > > 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