On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Gianluca Pacchiella
<gianluca.pacchiella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a repository where I maintain a project for a web site with a branch
> (disconnected from the mainline history) that contains some files
> (necessary only for a particular instance of a site) that don't intersect
> with others files in the main project. Since I don't want to use submodule
> and subtree I manage myself to this sequence of commands ("deploy" is the
> branch name of the mainline history and "index" of the --orphan branch) to
> checkout the index's files into the mainline files
>
> git read-tree index && ( git ls-files --with-tree=index | git
> checkout-index --stdin ) && git read-tree deploy
>
> Are there some other ways to do this? I'm crazy? are there side effects?
I don´t know if this is a good idea in general, but you could get the
same result with:
git merge --no-commit index &&
git reset deploy
HTH,
Santi
>
> Thanks,
> Gianluca
>
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