From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio?= Basto Subject: Re: bug report on update-index --assume-unchanged Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:45:57 +0000 Message-ID: <1417826757.30899.16.camel@segulix> References: <1417732931.20814.16.camel@segulix> <1417759955.10992.2.camel@segulix> <548156E5.2080006@kdbg.org> <1417798622.23238.6.camel@segulix> <12536C063959480083CC2D4CBA0BA38E@PhilipOakley> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , Duy Nguyen , Johannes Sixt , Git Mailing List To: Philip Oakley X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 06 01:46:32 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx3W3-0000py-S1 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:46:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751164AbaLFAqB convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2014 19:46:01 -0500 Received: from host1.easyho.st ([62.210.60.225]:40120 "EHLO host1.easyho.st" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751030AbaLFAqB (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2014 19:46:01 -0500 Received: from [188.250.193.97] (port=57719 helo=[192.168.1.67]) by host1.easyho.st with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx3VV-000qnb-Hq; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:45:59 +0000 In-Reply-To: <12536C063959480083CC2D4CBA0BA38E@PhilipOakley> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4 (3.10.4-4.fc20) X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host1.easyho.st X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - serjux.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: host1.easyho.st: authenticated_id: sergio@serjux.com X-From-Rewrite: unmodified, already matched Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sex, 2014-12-05 at 20:48 +0000, Philip Oakley wrote: > The problem here is that there is no guidance on what those actions > are > that may make git 'notice'. The man page git-update-index isn't as > clear > as it could be. Using --really-refresh being one option that would > make > git notice, but I wouldn't know when that is used. >=20 > Part of the implied question is why "git commit ." would notice when > when "git commit -a" didn't appear to. So it's unclear as to what the= =20 > user should have expected. >=20 I agree with this sentence, this is a bug because: git commit -a ( and -a means all ) is incoherent with "git commit ." This is stupid because when I want commit part of the tree, commit includes one file that is not included when I say to commit all .=20 So maybe you should fix, git commit -a to be coherent .=20 > (Note, I don't use assume-unchanged myself so this is more about=20 > supporting the user/manual clarification. It is mentioned moderately=20 > often on stackoverflow etc.) yeap =20 Sorry I don't have time to read all messages in thread ,=20 but I'm going to test git with the patch suggest in this thread , at least, I solve "my" problem for some time ...=20 Thanks, =20 --=20 S=E9rgio M. B.