Re: Problem creating commits/trees with commit-tree/mktree

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 19:38, Avery Pennarun [off-list ref] wrote:

When I'm doing similar things, I often prefer just using a temporary
git index file to keep track of my intermediate trees.  Just set
GIT_INDEX_FILE to point at a temporary file; then you can use
git-read-tree to read in an old tree, and git-update-index
(particularly with the --stdin flag) to update it.  Then you can use
git-write-tree to convert the temporary index into a real tree object.

Your suggestion works well.  git update-index --info-only -z
--index-info takes ls-tree -r -z style format and pre-existing
objects: just as I wanted.

Thanks, git-fast-import was too much for the quite simple git-related
code I need.

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Gavin Beatty

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