Subject: Something like cat-file for the index?
Hi, I'd like to have a more technical look into the index file and what/how it stores data; call it educational spelunking. I know the index-format.txt but I'd really like to save me the work to implement a pretty-printed output based on it. I know ls-files but that's obviously not the whole thing. So: is there something like cat-file, that basically gives me a readable version of the information (version number and all...) in the index already implemented or did nobody care until now? -- 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
Re: Subject: Something like cat-file for the index?
Hi, Enno Weichert enno.weich...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I'd like to have a more technical look into the index file and what/how it stores data; call it educational spelunking. I know the index-format.txt but I'd really like to save me the work to implement a pretty-printed output based on it. I know ls-files but that's obviously not the whole thing. So: is there something like cat-file, that basically gives me a readable version of the information (version number and all...) in the index already implemented or did nobody care until now? You can use `git ls-files --debug` and `git ls-files --stage` to get all the information about the files in the index. The meaning of the flags is the only thing that's not shown by the command, and I don't think there is a tool yet to examine them. The undocumented --resolve-undo flag to git ls-files shows you the resolve undo data that is stored in the index. If you build git yourself, the `test-dump-cache-tree` helper can be used to show all information about the cache-tree that is stored in the index. The you can get the version of the index either by using `test-index-version` when you build git yourself, or by using `file .git/index`, which in addition will give you the number of entries that are in the index. -- Thomas -- 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
Re: Subject: Something like cat-file for the index?
Thank you :) On 1/10/14, Thomas Gummerer t.gumme...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Enno Weichert enno.weich...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I'd like to have a more technical look into the index file and what/how it stores data; call it educational spelunking. I know the index-format.txt but I'd really like to save me the work to implement a pretty-printed output based on it. I know ls-files but that's obviously not the whole thing. So: is there something like cat-file, that basically gives me a readable version of the information (version number and all...) in the index already implemented or did nobody care until now? You can use `git ls-files --debug` and `git ls-files --stage` to get all the information about the files in the index. The meaning of the flags is the only thing that's not shown by the command, and I don't think there is a tool yet to examine them. The undocumented --resolve-undo flag to git ls-files shows you the resolve undo data that is stored in the index. If you build git yourself, the `test-dump-cache-tree` helper can be used to show all information about the cache-tree that is stored in the index. The you can get the version of the index either by using `test-index-version` when you build git yourself, or by using `file .git/index`, which in addition will give you the number of entries that are in the index. -- Thomas -- 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
