From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: Two ideas for improving git's user interface Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:31:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87mzhandqt.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> References: <46a038f90601251810m1086d353ne8c7147edee4962a@mail.gmail.com> <46a038f90601272133o53438987ka6b97c21d0cdf921@mail.gmail.com> <1138446030.9919.112.camel@evo.keithp.com> <7vzmlgt5zt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060130185822.GA24487@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> <7vek2oot7z.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v4q3jlgw2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vhd7ibza2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v8xsu91vf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <87lkwupsbr.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 02 13:31:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4dcm-0003ye-0C for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:31:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750975AbWBBMbl (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 07:31:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750973AbWBBMbl (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 07:31:41 -0500 Received: from mail.enyo.de ([212.9.189.167]:5076 "EHLO mail.enyo.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750978AbWBBMbj (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 07:31:39 -0500 Received: from deneb.vpn.enyo.de ([212.9.189.177] helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp id 1F4dcg-00072f-Tr for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:31:38 +0100 Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F4dcg-0002WQ-4Q for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:31:38 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <87lkwupsbr.wl%cworth@cworth.org> (Carl Worth's message of "Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:33:44 -0800") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: * Carl Worth: > Here's a fundamental question I have, (and thanks to Keith Packard for > helping me to phrase it): > > Is it ever useful (reasonable, desirable) to commit file > contents that differ from the contents of the working > directory? You mean like "darcs record"? 8-) I think this is very useful functionality. Granted, it interferes with a rigorous developer-side regression test policy ("all changes must have been built and passed the test suite"). But it encourages things like fixing typos in comments you spot while editing a file for other reasons. And you can keep some ugly debugging code while working on a series of changes.