Question

Is this possible to commit a file that don’t exist on filesystem on git ?

Exemple :

git add “hello world” “hello.txt”

I want to add hello world in the file hello.txt but i don’t want to write hello.txt on my filesystem.

hello.txt don’t exist and i don’t want it to exist except on the git system.
(i don’t want to write this file on my filesystem).
Is there a way to do this ?

Regards

Bussiere

Answer 1

Yes, you can do something like this.

# write new object to the object database, record its id
obj_id=$(echo hello world | git hash-object --stdin -w)

# add the new file to the index as 'hello.txt'
git update-index --add --cacheinfo 100644 $obj_id hello.txt

# Make a new commit adding the new file
git commit -m "Add new file"