Re: GIT - breaking backward compatibility

Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Brian Gerst wrote:

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Essentially what I want to do is:

git-ls-files --others | xargs git-update-index --add --
git-ls-files --deleted | xargs git-update-index --remove --
git-ls-files --modified | xargs git-update-index --

This will completely resync the index and cache to the working tree 
state after applying a patch.

It will also be extremely inefficient.

If you really have a _patch_, then "git-apply --index" is what you want to 
apply it with. It applies a patch _and_ updates the index as appropriate. 
It's how git-applymbox can apply hundreds of patches in short order.

		Linus

That would be great, if git-apply accepted fuzzy patches.  I am trying 
to apply the -mm series patches, which often are slightly out of date. 
Andrew doesn't rebase them until they won't apply at all.

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				Brian Gerst