From: Christopher Tiwald <christiwald@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] update-index: add --clear option
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:48:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120416214855.GM12860@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120416160232.GA1350@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:02:32PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> I tried to make something like:
>
> git update-index --from-scratch --index-info
>
> work by avoiding reading all entries in the first place. However,
> update-index actually processes its arguments sequentially, so we _must_
> read the index before we start processing arguments. But because it's
> sequential, a "clear" operation makes sense, since you clear, then add
> new entries.
At the very least I can give this patch series a go this evening. I'm in
the process of combining 40 highly-intertwined, nested repositories into
one, and should be able to test it under the conditions outlined in the
updated example.
--
Christopher Tiwald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-16 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-14 16:00 Filter-branch's "move tree to subdirectory" example fails with BSD sed? Christopher Tiwald
2012-04-14 19:25 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-04-16 15:27 ` Jeff King
2012-04-16 16:02 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/2] update-index: add --clear option Jeff King
2012-04-16 21:48 ` Christopher Tiwald [this message]
2012-04-17 18:36 ` Christopher Tiwald
2012-04-16 16:03 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/2] docs/filter-branch: clean up newsubdir example Jeff King
2012-04-16 17:03 ` Filter-branch's "move tree to subdirectory" example fails with BSD sed? Junio C Hamano
2012-04-16 17:13 ` Jeff King
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