Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-update-index: caution about tree objects

2012-12-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
Greg Troxel writes: > While one can add tree objects to the index, this is not currently > useful. Therefore, use "git ls-tree -r" as the example to be fed to > --index-info. Add a section explaining about expected index contents. > (Thanks to Junio for explaining this to me in August of 2011.)

[PATCH] Documentation/git-update-index: caution about tree objects

2012-12-20 Thread Greg Troxel
While one can add tree objects to the index, this is not currently useful. Therefore, use "git ls-tree -r" as the example to be fed to --index-info. Add a section explaining about expected index contents. (Thanks to Junio for explaining this to me in August of 2011.) Signed-off-by: Greg Troxel