From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 19:27:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4642831C.2090401@midwinter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vzm4dplhu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I obviously agree with this. As I said a few times I regret
> introducing "add -i" --- it encourages a wrong workflow, in that
> what you commit in steps never match what you had in the working
> tree and could have tested until the very end.
>
On the other hand, not all changes require any testing at all. For
example, if you're using git to manage documentation, it is totally
reasonable to commit a fix for a simple spelling error in one part of a
file while not committing an in-progress rewrite of another part.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-06 16:10 [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index Matthieu Moy
2007-05-06 16:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-06 17:34 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-06 17:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 12:52 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 13:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 14:24 ` [PATCH] git-commit: Reformat log messages provided on commandline Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 14:59 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-09 15:11 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 15:32 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-09 15:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-10 0:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-12 0:25 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-06 18:22 ` [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index Dana How
2007-05-06 23:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-06 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-06 18:23 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-06 19:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-06 22:53 ` Julian Phillips
2007-05-07 6:35 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-08 1:41 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-08 7:15 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-08 10:28 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-08 12:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-08 14:53 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-09 3:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-09 9:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-08 7:37 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-08 14:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-06 23:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-07 8:02 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-07 11:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 13:07 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-08 3:16 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-08 4:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-08 5:35 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-09 13:41 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 15:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-09 16:29 ` Carl Worth
2007-05-11 1:28 ` Jakub Narebski
[not found] ` <7vd518gkyo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2007-05-11 11:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-11 16:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-11 23:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-12 0:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-12 1:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-12 9:35 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-09 16:33 ` Dana How
2007-05-09 17:18 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-09 17:26 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 17:29 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-09 17:39 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-05-09 18:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-10 0:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-10 2:27 ` Steven Grimm [this message]
2007-05-10 2:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-10 8:00 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-10 22:06 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-10 22:51 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-08 11:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-15 1:00 ` David Kågedal
2007-05-15 23:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 17:18 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-07 11:40 ` Guilhem Bonnefille
2007-05-07 12:16 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-07 12:36 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-07 12:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-07 19:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 13:14 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-07 22:23 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-05-15 0:57 ` David Kågedal
2007-05-15 8:29 ` Karl Hasselström
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