On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:27:21PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Is git-reset the right layer to add scripting features? I thought we > > usually pushed people doing mass index manipulation to use update-index > > or read-tree. Is there something that reset makes easy that is hard with > > those tools (I could imagine "--hard", but I see it is not supported > > with your patch). > > > > Not that I'm necessarily opposed to the patch, I was just surprised. > > If read-tree had pathspec support (i.e. "read these and only these > paths given from the command line into the index from a given > tree-ish"), that would have been the most natural place to extend > with "oh, by the way, instead of the command line, you can feed the > paths on the standard input". > > But it doesn't have one. True. I'd have done something more like: git ls-tree -r $paths | git update-index --index-info but there are some corner cases around deleting paths from the index. -Peff