From: Ben Clifford <benc@hawaga.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:35:52 GMT
Subject: Re: maildir / read-tree trivial merging getting in the way?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0602140231340.19093@mundungus.clifford.ac>
In-Reply-To: <7vy80ewu6n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>
> 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.

-- 
Ben
http://www.hawaga.org.uk/ben/