From 8846587d4f3d1ddbc97dda081f052e6515368324 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: scott Chacon <schacon@agadorsparticus.(none)>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:33:36 -0800
Subject: added some examples to the README

---
 README | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 908b8cf..e2d3169 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -204,3 +204,28 @@ And here are the operations that will need to write to your git repository.
 
    g.push
    g.push(g.remote('name'))
+
+
+Some examples of more low-level index and tree operations
+
+   g.with_temp_index do 
+
+     g.read_tree(tree3) # calls self.index.read_tree
+     g.read_tree(tree1, :prefix => 'hi/')
+
+     c = g.commit_tree('message')
+     # or #
+     t = g.write_tree
+     c = g.commit_tree(t, :message => 'message', :parents => [sha1, sha2])
+
+     g.branch('branch_name').update_ref(c)
+     g.update_ref(branch, c)
+
+     g.with_temp_working do # new blank working directory
+       g.checkout
+       g.checkout(another_index)
+       g.commit # commits to temp_index
+     end    
+   end
+
+   g.set_index('/path/to/index')
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-- 
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