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Re: maildir / read-tree trivial merging getting in the way?

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Ben Clifford <benc@hawaga.org.uk>
Date
Feb 14, 2006, 02:35 UTC
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On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> That would be more naturally done by writing that thing in a
> more reasonable scripting language (not shell, but Perl or
> Python), call ls-tree three times, do whatever merge to come up
> with the final shape of the tree, and then construct the tree
> with a single invocation of "update-index --index-info", maybe
> even starting from an empty index file.

yeah, looks like ls-tree x 3 is what I want and quite possibly I'll end up constructing a new index from scratch.

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Ben
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