Re: Seeing various mode changes on cygwin

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Oct 10, 2005, 18:22 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510101120410.14597@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510101354520.23242@iabervon.org>

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> 
> Actually, you're right; it is information about the behavior of the 
> working tree, and is also needed if you want to compare the working tree 
> against a tree object, in which case you aren't using the index at all.

Git _always_ uses the index for working tree operations.

It may take the actual file _data_ from the working tree, but it will take the list of files from the index, so it's certainly possible to link the index to the working tree.

That said, I don't think it's necessarily a good idea. You can have temporary indexes for various operations that ignore the main one (ie any random

	GIT_INDEX_FILE=tmp git-read-tree ...

will create a new index).

So I think it's much better to have a config file.

I'll write something up. Make it extensible while at it.

		Linus