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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
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* 2010-02-04 10:55 (+0100), Johannes Sixt wrote:

> I think you should be able to reduce all of this to just
>
> git read-tree --index-output=/tmp/empty.index -m -u \
> 	4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 # empty tree
> rm -f /tmp/empty.index
>
> (with the usual caveats about temporary files).

Thanks, it works. It's also _much_ faster than my "git ls-tree" with
shell loop thing. It prints ugly error, though:

    fatal: unable to write new index file

Also, it doesn't leave any index output files around.