hooks: factor out an update-working-tree.sh script

[config/vcsh.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
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@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
 vcsh configuration to handle collisions of files common to distinct vcsh
 repositories using the sparse-checkout functionality of git.
 
 vcsh configuration to handle collisions of files common to distinct vcsh
 repositories using the sparse-checkout functionality of git.
 

+Based on John Whitley's setup at https://github.com/jwhitley/vcsh-root
+

 The patterns for the colliding files are in .config/vcsh/sparse-checkout and
 a pre-upgrade hook is used to make vcsh repositories use it.
 
 Many git commands (e.g. git-merge, git-checkout) will automatically use the
 information in $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout when dealing with files in the
 The patterns for the colliding files are in .config/vcsh/sparse-checkout and
 a pre-upgrade hook is used to make vcsh repositories use it.
 
 Many git commands (e.g. git-merge, git-checkout) will automatically use the
 information in $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout when dealing with files in the

-git work directory, so generally a calling git-read-tree explicitly is not
+git working tree, so generally a calling git-read-tree explicitly is not

 needed.
 
 However when the content of $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout changes it is
 necessary to call "git read-tree -mu HEAD" to update the content of the
 needed.
 
 However when the content of $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout changes it is
 necessary to call "git read-tree -mu HEAD" to update the content of the

-working directory.
+working tree.