Hi Sean
On 04/10/2022 14:44, Sean Allred wrote:
Hi all,
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USING --INDEX-INFO
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`--index-info` is a more powerful mechanism that lets you feed
multiple entry definitions from the standard input, and designed
specifically for scripts. It can take inputs of three formats:
. mode SP type SP sha1 TAB path
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This format is to stuff `git ls-tree` output into the index.
but the following does not work:
$ cat | git update-index --index-info
040000 tree TREEID1 PATH1
(using the appropriate delimiters, of course). This command succeeds,
but checking git-status (and confirming with other tools like `git
ls-files -s`) reveal that this invocation did not have the desired
effect:
(mode) (oid) (stage) (path)
(...)
100755 (oid1) 0 PATH1FILENAME
100755 (oid2) 0 PATH1FILENAME
100755 (oid3) 0 PATH1FILENAME
with `PATH1` simply prepended to each file in TREEID1. In contrast, the
desired state is
100755 (oid1) 0 PATH1/FILENAME
100755 (oid2) 0 PATH1/FILENAME
100755 (oid3) 0 PATH1/FILENAME
I also tried appending a / at the end of PATH1 (this isn't ls-tree
output, but it's 'reasonable'), but git-update-index simply ignores the
line with the message
Ignoring path PATH1/
Is there a better, recommended way to do this? Given the language in
git-update-index.txt, is this a bug / functionality gap in update-index?
The documentation reads as if I could
$ git ls-tree <args> | git update-index --index-info
I agree update-index sounds like the right tool for what you want to do
and this sounds like a bug but I'm not that familiar with update-index.
As a workaround you could try
git ls-tree -r arg | sed s: : new/prefix/: | git update-index --index-info
Best Wishes
Phillip
