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
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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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