From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:32:15 GMT
Subject: Re: index manipulation quickref
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0612121332m51dea9day2f18c80b94ff4d5d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vac1tvuyr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 12/13/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> I think this goes in the wrong direction.  For "newbies" the
> Porcelain-ish set is supposed to be enough and if there is
> something missing that they need to do update-index command
> itself or a pipeline that involves update-index to achieve
> common tasks, we should enhance Porcelain-ish that captures the
> pattern.

It is supposed to be porcelain command only. I figure what operation a
user may need when manipulating index, then find the corresponding
porcelain command.

As you can see, we have porcelain commands for most of operations. The
missing piece is reset a file in index (and maybe "git cat-file
::file" -- it's too cryptic). Hopefully "git reset -- file" will be
implemented soon.
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