From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx•de>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Support `git reset --stdin`
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:27:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqshs28z52.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161011183448.yasglfjelo4kgrq4@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:34:49 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> Is git-reset the right layer to add scripting features? I thought we
> usually pushed people doing mass index manipulation to use update-index
> or read-tree. Is there something that reset makes easy that is hard with
> those tools (I could imagine "--hard", but I see it is not supported
> with your patch).
>
> Not that I'm necessarily opposed to the patch, I was just surprised.
If read-tree had pathspec support (i.e. "read these and only these
paths given from the command line into the index from a given
tree-ish"), that would have been the most natural place to extend
with "oh, by the way, instead of the command line, you can feed the
paths on the standard input".
But it doesn't have one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-11 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-11 16:08 [PATCH 0/2] Support `git reset --stdin` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-11 16:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] reset: fix usage Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-11 16:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] reset: support the --stdin option Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-11 17:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-12 12:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-11 20:49 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-10-12 12:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-11 18:34 ` [PATCH 0/2] Support `git reset --stdin` Jeff King
2016-10-11 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-10-11 21:26 ` Jeff King
2016-10-11 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-11 21:47 ` Jeff King
2016-10-11 21:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-27 12:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-27 12:38 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] reset: support the --stdin option Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-27 17:04 ` Jeff King
2017-01-27 17:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-27 17:54 ` Jeff King
2017-01-27 18:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-27 22:12 ` Jeff King
2017-01-28 0:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-27 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] Support `git reset --stdin` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-27 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] reset: support the --stdin option Johannes Schindelin
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