Re: [PATCH 1/1] add, rm + status patches

[Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>]

Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:18:07AM CEST, I got a letter
where David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> told me that...
> Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > Thanks. Could you please send the patches signed off and either with
> > content-disposition: inline or in the mail body?
> Is this OK.
> Thunderbird isn't the best for attaching patches.

Yes. The patch you inserted is useless, whitespaces are mangled away.

> > I think it would be cleaner to do the testing for the dash in the for
> > loop, so that I can do git add foo bar -. Also, don't forget to
> > update git add's documentation at the top. For the usage string, I'd
> > probably prefer (-|FILE)...
> >
> > thanks,
> 
> Here you are:
> * git add and git rm now take (-|FILE)...
> * noted some bugs to be fixed
> * introduced de-dupe code into add and rm
> * git status reports added/removed files (although there are extra entries)
> * README, git and command docs updated
> 
> I realise as I write this that I should have split these patches up - I 
> will do so next time.

Well, I didn't ask you to split the patch the first time since it was
quite trivial for me to do, but this is too much. ;-)

> Has a decision been reached to _not_ code the cogito part of the git 
> suite in perl?
> 
> I ask because the code in git status is getting pretty ugly.
> I'd be happy to help with a preliminary port to perl.

I'm fine with Perl. I chose shell for the very initial implementation since
it actually was simplest, but now, I wouldn't have anything against Perl
if it makes is simpler. (And as long as your Perl is nice. I'm harsh
reviewer. ;-)

> Index: gitadd.sh
> ===================================================================
> --- c0aff9b98c4242ab8965c428241df1d8f7a1d4bb/gitadd.sh (mode:100755 
> sha1:3ed93ea0fcb995673ba9ee1982e0e7abdbe35982)
> +++ cd5cd7a9272ce1966aca3bfce15f703e33cafc04/gitadd.sh (mode:100755 
> sha1:a3e83ac52abd5a9cdc6abd560f95b2f19646fd99)
> \ No newline at end of file

Note this. Something is wrong with your text editor, too.

Kind regards,

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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