Re: index manipulation quickref

"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" [off-list ref] writes:

I'm trying to collect all operations related to index from user
perspective and corresponding commands. The list may be put to git
wiki if people think it can help newbies:

I think this goes in the wrong direction.  For "newbies" the
Porcelain-ish set is supposed to be enough and if there is
something missing that they need to do update-index command
itself or a pipeline that involves update-index to achieve
common tasks, we should enhance Porcelain-ish that captures the
pattern.

I think quick-ref for Porcelain writers would not hurt, but they
have manuals.

On 12/13/06, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

I think this goes in the wrong direction.  For "newbies" the
Porcelain-ish set is supposed to be enough and if there is
something missing that they need to do update-index command
itself or a pipeline that involves update-index to achieve
common tasks, we should enhance Porcelain-ish that captures the
pattern.

It is supposed to be porcelain command only. I figure what operation a
user may need when manipulating index, then find the corresponding
porcelain command.

As you can see, we have porcelain commands for most of operations. The
missing piece is reset a file in index (and maybe "git cat-file
::file" -- it's too cryptic). Hopefully "git reset -- file" will be
implemented soon.
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