On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Joey Hess <i...@joeyh.name> wrote: > Is there any available plumbing that can change the mtime etc metadata > that is recorded in the index for a file, to user-provided values? Or, > to force the current file stat metadata to be updated in the index?
I don't think there is a way. We probably should improve ls-files and update-index to examine and update basically everything in the index.. But so far, nothing yet. > I know, git update-index --refresh, but I have a case where that's too > expensive. I'm using smudge filters; I know that the cleaned version of > the file will be unchanged from what's in the index now and only the > stat metadata will change, and so I want to avoid > git update-index --refresh running the clean filter, which can > be quite expensive for a large file. > > At the moment I don't see a way to do it other than using eg libgit2 to > update the appropriate fields in the index structure. Yeah. I see libgit2 has a haskell binding, probably best for you. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
