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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Seeing various mode changes on cygwin
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:22:46 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510101120410.14597@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510101354520.23242@iabervon.org>



On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> Actually, you're right; it is information about the behavior of the 
> working tree, and is also needed if you want to compare the working tree 
> against a tree object, in which case you aren't using the index at all.

Git _always_ uses the index for working tree operations.

It may take the actual file _data_ from the working tree, but it will take 
the list of files from the index, so it's certainly possible to link the 
index to the working tree.

That said, I don't think it's necessarily a good idea. You can have 
temporary indexes for various operations that ignore the main one (ie any 
random

	GIT_INDEX_FILE=tmp git-read-tree ...

will create a new index).

So I think it's much better to have a config file.

I'll write something up. Make it extensible while at it.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-10 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-08 18:00 Seeing various mode changes on cygwin Jonas Fonseca
2005-10-08 18:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-08 21:36   ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-08 23:36     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-09  2:19       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-09  6:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-10  6:48         ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-10-10  7:38           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-10 17:59             ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-10-10 18:22               ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2005-10-10 21:35                 ` Add ".git/config" file parser Linus Torvalds
2005-10-10 21:47                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-10 21:50                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10 22:12                       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-12  0:25                   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-12  7:43                     ` [PATCH] Use core.filemode Junio C Hamano
2005-10-09  3:43       ` Seeing various mode changes on cygwin H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-09 13:02       ` Alex Riesen

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