Re: [PATCH 3/3] git checkout --nodwim

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 04:40:41PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:

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I don't think there's actually a plumbing alternative to git-checkout,
however.  My git-subtree script (and another script at work) have
already had some bugs because of this (specifically, the differing
behaviour of git-checkout with and without a path specified).  Is
there something else I should be using in my scripts to be maximally
safe?

It's git-update-ref.

That would be similar to git commit, not git checkout, right?  Oh
wait, I see the confusion: git checkout does two things.  It switches
branches, and it checks out files from the index into the work tree.
I meant the latter meaning.

Consider "git commit", for example. Does anyone
actually script around "write-tree" and "commit-tree" these days, or do
they just script around "git commit"?

Oh, I use those all the time.  They're awesome!  It allows you to
create commits without having a working tree, which lets me do very
interesting tricks.  git-subtree uses this heavily.

I'm probably a weirdo, though.

Have fun,

Avery