On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:10:57PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> Just in case anybody thought about creating tree objects on the fly and >> use their SHA-1s: that won't fly, as you can have unmerged entries in the >> index. So STAGED.. is a _fundamentally_ different thing from HEAD^.. > > I thought about that at first, too, but the working tree is even more > painful. You would have to hash every changed file on the filesystem to > create the tree object. Is that so bad? You have to read all those files anyway in order to do a diff. Avery -- 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