From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Nathan Neulinger <nneul@neulinger.org>,
Santiago Torres <santiago@nyu.edu>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git status always modifies index?
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 12:32:13 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwp2diuki.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171122220627.GE2854@sigill> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:06:27 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> What I was trying to get at is that naming it "status --no-lock-index"
> would not be the same thing (even though with the current implementation
> it would behave the same). IOW, can we improve the documentation of
> "status" to point to make it easier to discover this use case.
Yeah, the name is unfortunate.
What the end user really wants to see, I suspect, is a "--read-only"
option that applies to any filesystem entity and to any command, in
the context of this thread, and also in the original discussion that
led to the introduction of that option.
While I think the variable losing "index" from its name was a vast
improvement relative to "--no-lock-index", simply because it
expresses what we do a bit closer to "do not just do things without
modifying anything my repository", it did not go far enough.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-26 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-22 15:19 git status always modifies index? Nathan Neulinger
2017-11-22 15:30 ` Santiago Torres
2017-11-22 15:37 ` Nathan Neulinger
2017-11-22 16:10 ` Santiago Torres
2017-11-22 16:20 ` Nathan Neulinger
2017-11-22 16:24 ` Santiago Torres
2017-11-22 20:27 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-22 21:17 ` Jeff King
2017-11-22 21:56 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-22 22:06 ` Jeff King
2017-11-25 21:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-26 19:25 ` Jeff King
2017-11-26 21:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-27 5:24 ` Jeff King
2017-11-27 6:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27 20:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-27 6:04 ` [PATCH] git-status.txt: mention --no-optional-locks Jeff King
2017-11-27 6:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27 10:22 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-11-27 20:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-27 20:44 ` git status always modifies index? Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-27 20:49 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-26 3:32 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-11-26 9:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27 4:43 ` Jeff King
2017-11-27 4:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27 5:00 ` Jeff King
2017-11-27 20:57 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-27 22:50 ` Jeff King
2017-12-03 0:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-26 19:27 ` Jeff King
2017-11-27 0:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27 6:12 ` Jeff King
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