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Re: RFH: refactor read-tree

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 9, 2006, 14:30 UTC
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Hi,
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Alex Riesen wrote:
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> Linus Torvalds, Sun, Jul 09, 2006 05:15:41 +0200:
> > The basic idea is that "branch1" should be your current branch, and it 
> > obviously is also expected to match (more or less) the current index. So 
> > you can do a merge by
> > 
> >  - reading in "branch1" into the index:
> > 
> > 	GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/tmp-index git-read-tree -m branch1
> 
> what is "-m" here for?
It means that git-read-tree tries to merge the current index with branch1.

Ciao, Dscho

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  2. Linus TorvaldsJul 9, 2006
  3. Alex RiesenJul 9, 2006
  4. Johannes SchindelinJul 9, 2006
  5. Linus TorvaldsJul 9, 2006
  6. Alex RiesenJul 9, 2006
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