Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> I have some questions and remarks
I see that you are using fairly low level commands (plumbing commands)
> git-http-fetch -a <branch> <url>
> wget <url>/refs/head/<branch> ## dump to <myrepo>/refs/head/<branch>
instead of setting $GIT_DIR/remotes/origin file and using "git fetch".
BTW. "git fetch" will not update branch you are on, unless --update-head-ok
option is used.
> git --git-dir <myrepo> read-tree <committish>
>
> cd <srcdir>
> git --git-dir <myrepo> checkout-index -a -f
instead of
git --git-dir=<myrepo> checkout <branch>
(-f is Force a re-read of everything)
> * As far as I can see, there is no reason to have only one index in a
> git repository. Why isn't it possible to specify an alternate
> index-file with an option similar to --git-dir ?
--git-dir is alternative to setting GIT_DIR. You can use GIT_INDEX_FILE
to specify alternate index file. Documented in git(7), section
"ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES".
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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