Re: simple use case scenario for --read-tree and --write-tree with --prefix option

["Aneesh Kumar" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>]

On 6/19/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> Dear diary, on Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:58:31AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> said that...
> > cd test
> >
> > kvaneesh@satan:/tmp/test$ git read-tree --prefix=test1/ $(cat
> > test1/.git/refs/heads/master)
> > fatal: failed to unpack tree object c6c049d03f0bee0ac546ff6e436d5f6f3a5f4864
> >
> > But the above command doesn't work for me. I guess i am missing something.
>
> You need to do a fetch to your /tmp/test repository first.
>


Ok that made the --read-tree part work. But the log or whatchanged
commands doesn't gets me the history of changes with resepect to the
files added.  Now i remember this is in a way simillar to gitweb
history not shown. But then using the --full-history option with git
log also doesn't show the details of history with respect to the
files.

This is what i did

git fetch ./test2/
git read-tree --prefix=test2/ $(cat test2/.git/refs/heads/master)

Now if i look at .git/objects/ I can see commit objects with respect
to changes for test2/a

-aneesh