with_temp_working doesn't appear to do anything

[jantman]

I'm trying to use .with_temp_working but it doesn't appear to actually do anything.

If I have a small ruby script in a directory that's a git clone, and it does:

require 'git'
g = Git.open(Dir.pwd)
g.with_temp_working do
  g.checkout('mybranch')
end

When the script exits, I would expect my directory to be untouched, i.e. exactly as it was before. However, pwd seems to have had "mybranch" checked out.

As far as I can tell, with_temp_working is either completely unfinished, or I'm very confused about how it's supposed to work...

[robertodecurnex]

Hi Jason,

A couple of things to have in mind:

1. Working Directory != Working Tree
2. git checkout branch_name != git checkout branch_name -- path_here

From Git Commit Docs:

If no paths are given, git checkout will also update HEAD to set the
specified branch as the current branch.

So, checking out a branch will update the index reference, no matter wher
your current working directory is.

Checking out files is a different story.

You can try to play with *with_temp_index *in you want to leave the
original index untouched.

Regards,

Roberto Decurnex

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Jason Antman notifications@github.com
wrote:

I'm trying to use .with_temp_working but it doesn't appear to actually do
anything.

If I have a small ruby script in a directory that's a git clone, and it
does:

require 'git'
g = Git.open(Dir.pwd)
g.with_temp_working do
g.checkout('mybranch')
end

When the script exits, I would expect my directory to be untouched, i.e.
exactly as it was before. However, pwd seems to have had "mybranch"
checked out.

As far as I can tell, with_temp_working is either completely unfinished,
or I'm very confused about how it's supposed to work...

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[jantman]

Ok, thanks, sorry for my confusion. I'm still sort of unclear about what with_temp_working is supposed to do, but now I'm pretty clear it's not what I want.

Thanks. I'm working on an alternate solution to my problem now; I'll close this once I have it solved (and comment with a bit about what I was trying to do, and how I did it).

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