Re: index manipulation quickref

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> I'm trying to collect all operations related to index from user
> perspective and corresponding commands. The list may be put to git
> wiki if people think it can help newbies:
> 
> update file content to index: git update-index file
Or "git add file" woth new git.

> add a file to index: git add file
> delete a file from index: git update-index --remove --force-remove
> (or remove that file in workdir and do git update-index --remove)
Or "git rm file" (old version did remove only from index, new version
is to remove also from working directory if it matches HEAD)

> read a tree to index: git read-tree treeish, git reset treeish
> read a file from a tree to index: git ls-tree <tree-ish> file|git
> update-index --index-info --stdin
> copy a file from index to workdir: git checkout-index file
Or just "git checkout -- file"

> refresh index: git update-index --refresh
> copy entire index to workdir: git checkout-index
Or just "git checkout"

> output a file from index to stdout: ?? (is there a command for this?)
"git cat-file -p ::<filename>"

> list files in index: git ls-files
> compare index and workdir file listing: 
>    git ls-files (with lots of options here) 
> diff between workdir and index: git diff
> diff between index and a tree: git diff --cached <tree-ish>

diff between workdir and tree: git diff <tree-ish> 

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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