From: Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git.c: add --index-file command-line option.
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:01:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50CCF324.5060802@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vliczrttq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
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Il 15/12/2012 20:36, Junio C Hamano ha scritto:
> [...]
>>>> Unlike other environment variables (e.g. GIT_WORK_TREE,
>>>> GIT_NAMESPACE), it was not possible to set the GIT_INDEX_FILE
>>>> environment variable using the command line.
>>>
>>> Is this necessary? I'd prefer to see a better reason than "just
>>> because others have it".
>>
>> A long running program will be able to tell git to use an alternate
>> index file, without having to modify its own environment,...
>
> Hrm, isn't that the single-shot environment export syntax
>
> GIT_INDEX_FILE=foo git blah
>
> is for? Is there a real-world need for this?
>
This works with a shell.
I'm using Python to write a custom git command.
Regards Manlio
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-15 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-14 11:23 [PATCH] git.c: add --index-file command-line option Manlio Perillo
2012-12-15 18:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-15 18:53 ` Manlio Perillo
2012-12-15 19:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-15 22:01 ` Manlio Perillo [this message]
2012-12-16 5:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-16 8:20 ` Manlio Perillo
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