From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:12:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow updating the index from a pipe
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512100210090.25300@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqzpxwg2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > In order to allow the index to be modified in simple ways without
> > having a working tree, this adds an option to git-update-index which
> > updates a single path with a mode of 100644 and reads the content from
> > stdin.
> 
> I wonder ...
> 
> Could you do this with existing hash-object with update-index
> --cache-info (or --index-info) please?  If you do not want a
> temporary file and prefer piping contents into a command,
> extending hash-object would be preferable.

Sure; I lost track of what hash-object was called at some point and 
thought it had been removed. I'll do a patch to extend that to take stdin 
when I get a chance.

	-Daniel
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