# Checkout of orphan branch files into mainline worktree

2 messages from 2010-03-25 to 2010-03-25. Participants: Gianluca Pacchiella, Santi Béjar.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23173

## Gianluca Pacchiella, 2010-03-25 10:39

Subject: Checkout of orphan branch files into mainline worktree
Message-ID: <hofehl$jbn$1@dough.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/hofehl%24jbn%241%40dough.gmane.org

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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?

Thanks,
	Gianluca

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## Santi Béjar, 2010-03-25 11:10

Subject: Re: Checkout of orphan branch files into mainline worktree
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d1003250410w5bd79777h77e1923e5a4b19dd@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/adf1fd3d1003250410w5bd79777h77e1923e5a4b19dd%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <hofehl$jbn$1@dough.gmane.org>

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

>
> Thanks,
>        Gianluca
>
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