Re: git cherry-pick before archive

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 14:46, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

BTW in your case, I would suggest this:

       INDEX_FILE=.git/bla git read-tree HEAD &&
       INDEX_FILE=.git/bla git apply --cached patchfile &&
       INDEX_FILE=.git/bla git archive [...] &&
       rm .git/bla

IOW: Just use a temporary index for your work.

What is the rationale?  So I can relieve the assumption that the index is clean?

-- 
 Denis