write-tree: --prefix=<path>
authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:20:50 +0000 (01:20 -0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Tue, 2 May 2006 05:29:16 +0000 (22:29 -0700)
commit6bd20358a9b831b3b545284188871bc844245c25
tree421b2749edc4442cda4f455e8c157a229f287ad9
parentf4c6f2d328e2f30ad63fdfca26a5e4a11cef35bf
write-tree: --prefix=<path>

The "bind" commit can express an aggregation of multiple
projects into a single commit.

In such an organization, there would be one project, root of
whose tree object is at the same level of the root of the
aggregated projects, and other projects have their toplevel in
separate subdirectories.  Let's call that root level project the
"primary project", and call other ones just "subprojects".

You would first read-tree the primary project, and then graft
the subprojects under their appropriate location using read-tree
--prefix=<subdir>/ repeatedly.

To write out a tree object from such an index for a subproject,
write-tree --prefix=<subdir>/ is used.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/git-write-tree.txt
cache-tree.c
cache-tree.h
t/t0000-basic.sh
write-tree.c