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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Alexander GQ Gerasiov <gq@cs.msu.su>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to put tree into index
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:41:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528CADE6.3020604@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131120154714.39fc5202@snail>

Am 11/20/2013 12:47, schrieb Alexander GQ Gerasiov:
> 1. I have repository with tree like this:
> 
> dir1/
> 	file1
> 	file2
> 	file3
> 
> dir2/
> 	subdir1/
> 		some files
> 
> 
> 2. Current branch is B.
> 
> 3. I want to get dir1 from branch A, and save it's content on current
> branch (B) as dir2/subdir1

> So my question is
> How to put into index tree-object with known sha1 and given name?

git rm -r --cached dir2/subdir1 &&
git read-tree --prefix=dir2/subdir1/ A:dir1

Note the trailing slash.

> PS I was able to do what I need when copied files, not tree-itself.
> Just add -r to git ls-tree, and put into index blobs/files, not tree.
> But I'm interested: is it possible to put tree-object into index?

No, because the index does not store trees, only blobs.

-- Hannes

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-20 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-20 11:47 How to put tree into index Alexander GQ Gerasiov
2013-11-20 12:25 ` Matthew Cengia
2013-11-20 12:41 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]

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