Checkout of orphan branch files into mainline worktree

Gianluca Pacchiella· Mar 25, 2010, 10:39 UTC · lore

Hi folks,

I have a repository where I maintain a project for a web site with a branch (disconnected from the mainline history) that contains some files (necessary only for a particular instance of a site) that don't intersect with others files in the main project. Since I don't want to use submodule and subtree I manage myself to this sequence of commands ("deploy" is the branch name of the mainline history and "index" of the --orphan branch) to checkout the index's files into the mainline files

git read-tree index && ( git ls-files --with-tree=index | git checkout-index --stdin ) && git read-tree deploy

Are there some other ways to do this? I'm crazy? are there side effects?

Thanks,
	Gianluca

Santi Béjar· Mar 25, 2010, 11:10 UTC · re: Gianluca Pacchiella · lore

Re: Checkout of orphan branch files into mainline worktree

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Gianluca Pacchiella <gianluca.pacchiella@ktln2.org> wrote:

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> Hi folks,
>
> I have a repository where I maintain a project for a web site with a branch
> (disconnected from the mainline history) that contains some files
> (necessary only for a particular instance of a site) that don't intersect
> with others files in the main project. Since I don't want to use submodule
> and subtree I manage myself to this sequence of commands ("deploy" is the
> branch name of the mainline history and "index" of the --orphan branch) to
> checkout the index's files into the mainline files
>
> git read-tree index && ( git ls-files --with-tree=index | git
> checkout-index --stdin ) && git read-tree deploy
>
> Are there some other ways to do this? I'm crazy? are there side effects?

I don´t know if this is a good idea in general, but you could get the same result with:

git merge --no-commit index && git reset deploy

HTH, Santi

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