From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
To: Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Binary files in a linear repository
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:48:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091102154831.GC27126@dpotapov.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8470D32E-2CAA-4E3F-8BA0-B4578372A3C4@jump-ing.de>
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 04:08:25PM +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
>
> Now I'm thinking about a much simpler solution: Simply declare the
> current set of files as (a modified) master/com005 and commit them. A
> "cp $GIT_DIR/master $GIT_DIR/HEAD" followed by a commit would do it.
>
> Now my question: Is it safe to tweak the files in $GIT_DIR this way or
> will this corrupt the repository?
You probably should use 'git update-ref' if you want to change HEAD
manually. But it seems to me that you do not need even that. All what
you need is:
$ git reset --soft master
and then commit your changes (git reset --soft does not touch the index
file nor the working tree at all).
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-02 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <S1754797AbZKBONX/20091102141323Z+268@vger.kernel.org>
2009-11-02 15:08 ` Binary files in a linear repository Markus Hitter
2009-11-02 15:34 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-11-02 15:48 ` Dmitry Potapov [this message]
2009-11-02 16:09 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-11-02 16:52 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-11-02 17:01 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-11-02 17:45 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-11-02 18:37 ` Björn Steinbrink
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