Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I was just alerted by Scott Chacon's blog [1] to the fact that one can >> set GIT_INDEX_FILE to an arbitrary filename, thereby causing the index >> to be read/written from that file instead of $GIT_DIR/index. > > That's very old fashioned. For almost five years, the preferred way to > say that has been "git read-tree --index-output=file" ;-) Ah, I take that back. There is any benefit to be had by using "read-tree --index-output" in the way used in your check-attr example. Setting up a single GIT_INDEX_FILE and using it throughout as you did is indeed much more preferrable. > But what you outlined should work. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html