Re: Any way to edit the file in index directly?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 8, 2009, 02:39 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904080434240.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090408021041.GB18244@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:03:03AM +0800, Ping Yin wrote:
> 
> > There seems to be a patch for this ( add -e?), but i forget where to
> > find it.
> 
> "add -p" has an "e"dit option for editing the patch. I don't recall any
> way of directly editing the content.

I posted a patch for "git add --edit", which allows you to edit the _diff_ between the working directory and the index, and which applies the result using apply --recount.

But that has nothing to do with "editing the index directly".

But you might want to use a combination of "hash-object -w --stdin" and "update-index --cacheinfo". IOW something like

	sha1=$(echo Hello | git hash-object -w --stdin) &&
	git update-index --cacheinfo 0644 $sha1 my-file

However, Ping, I _strongly_ suspect an X-Y problem here. IOW I think you are asking about specifics of a certain _solution_, while we probably have a better solution for your particular _problem_.

Hth, Dscho