Re: Individual file snapshots

Mark Lodato [off-list ref] writes:

...  Besides, using GIT_INDEX_FILE as suggested
by Junio allows me to leave the original index file intact.

Heh, that is what the Professionals use ;-) It is used by git-stash.sh for
example.

Aspiring Porcelain authors would benefit greatly by learning from some of
the few remaining scripted Porcelain commands.  With the recent rewriting
to many of the originally scripted ones in C, it may have become somewhat
harder to learn the plumbing mechanisms and techniques that way, but we
still keep some older ones in contrib/examples directory for that purpose.