Re: several quick questions

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Feb 14, 2006, 18:26 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602141008220.3691@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2006.02.14.17.47.53.126690@canit.se>

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Kenneth Johansson wrote:

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> What I ended up doing was going nee deep into the plumbing.
> 
> first doing cat on the tag in .git/refs/tags/ 
> taking the output as an argument to  "git-read-tree"
> followed by "git-update-index --replace" and "git-checkout-index -a -f -u"
> 
> I'm not sure that many people will understand that they want git-reset for
> this just reading the man pages.

Hey, but I bet you now as a result feel you really understand git, right?

;)

You did it the old-fashioned way - the way real men did it back in June.

In general, doing "ls *.sh" in the git source tree shows you pretty much every command that you might ever want to use. Using the actual core git binaries directly is normally not all that useful, unless you want to do some strange shell pipeline to do statistics about different things in the tree.

		Linus