From: Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:41:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Individual file snapshots
Message-ID: <ron1-E2C140.10413413022010@news.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <ca433831002130713i5b015686k9f53911954858845@mail.gmail.com>

In article 
<ca433831002130713i5b015686k9f53911954858845@mail.gmail.com>,
 Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> wrote:
> > Moving the index around seems kinda hacky.  You probably want git-mktree.
> 
> git-mktree is way too complicated.  I would have to parse the index
> and call git-mktree for each directory.

Yeah, but think of how studly you'll feel when you do that! ;-)

> Besides, using GIT_INDEX_FILE as suggested
> by Junio allows me to leave the original index file intact.

Yeah, that might actually be a better plan.

rg