Re: Seeing various mode changes on cygwin

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