From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 18:53:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Version of dirdiff to display diffs between git trees
Message-ID: <m3d5s4jieh.fsf@defiant.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505060916320.2233@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> 	cat .git/ORIG_HEAD > .git/HEAD
> 	git-read-tree -m HEAD
> 	git-checkout-cache -f -a
> 	git-update-cache --refresh
>
> and you're back to your original head (the above is basically "unpull").

So, is "git-read-tree -m HEAD" actually equivalent to "git-read-tree HEAD"
and does it simply write complete index (ignoring the old one)
corresponding to given HEAD?
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa