Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > I'm trying to collect all operations related to index from user > perspective and corresponding commands. The list may be put to git > wiki if people think it can help newbies: > > update file content to index: git update-index file Or "git add file" woth new git. > add a file to index: git add file > delete a file from index: git update-index --remove --force-remove > (or remove that file in workdir and do git update-index --remove) Or "git rm file" (old version did remove only from index, new version is to remove also from working directory if it matches HEAD) > read a tree to index: git read-tree treeish, git reset treeish > read a file from a tree to index: git ls-tree <tree-ish> file|git > update-index --index-info --stdin > copy a file from index to workdir: git checkout-index file Or just "git checkout -- file" > refresh index: git update-index --refresh > copy entire index to workdir: git checkout-index Or just "git checkout" > output a file from index to stdout: ?? (is there a command for this?) "git cat-file -p ::<filename>" > list files in index: git ls-files > compare index and workdir file listing: > git ls-files (with lots of options here) > diff between workdir and index: git diff > diff between index and a tree: git diff --cached <tree-ish> diff between workdir and tree: git diff <tree-ish> -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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