From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Brandon McCaig <bamccaig@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Ammeter" <git@ammeter.ch>,
"Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wrong handling of text git attribute leading to files incorrectly reported as modified
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:23:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqob02jnhk.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANUGeEYoS+t57jfpEoZE-2u_cD1uOD5pdp=yF--Rhpb9z91qxQ@mail.gmail.com> (Brandon McCaig's message of "Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:12:50 -0400")
Brandon McCaig <bamccaig@gmail.com> writes:
> That is for your benefit, and for easily sharing that configuration
> with collaborators. Git only cares that the file exists in your
> working tree at run-time.
It is a lot more than "for sharing". If you made .gitignore only
effective after it gets committed, you cannot test your updated
version of .gitignore is correct before committing the change.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-15 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-11 20:20 wrong handling of text git attribute leading to files incorrectly reported as modified Frank Ammeter
2014-04-11 20:38 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-04-12 11:29 ` Frank Ammeter
2014-04-15 20:12 ` Brandon McCaig
2014-04-15 21:23 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-04-16 11:49 ` Frank Ammeter
2014-04-16 16:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-16 17:03 ` Holger Hellmuth
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=xmqqob02jnhk.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com \
--to=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=bamccaig@gmail.com \
--cc=git@ammeter.ch \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=tboegi@web.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.