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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Christian Jaeger <christian@jaeger.mine.nu>,
	Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-rm isn't the inverse action of git-add
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 01:12:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070703051254.GA6477@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4pkmt6nk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 10:09:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Exactly.  And not considering that lossage helps us keep our
> sanity.  I think "git rm --cached" falls into the same
> category.  If the user wants to discard what is in the index
> without losing a copy in the working tree, I think we should let
> him do without fuss.

OK. So should we _remove_ the safety valve in all cases where we're just
losing stuff that's in the index? It is, after all, recoverable. Should
there be a warning (I suspect it would get annoying very quickly)?

I think this would help by making the use of '-f' more rare, which is
the thing that can _really_ screw you, since it turns off the safety
valve even for things that aren't recoverable.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-03  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-02 18:09 git-rm isn't the inverse action of git-add Christian Jaeger
2007-07-02 19:42 ` Yann Dirson
2007-07-02 20:23   ` Christian Jaeger
2007-07-02 20:40     ` Yann Dirson
2007-07-02 20:54       ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-02 21:05         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-03 10:37           ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-03 12:09             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-03 13:40               ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-03 14:21                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-04 20:08                 ` Jan Hudec
2007-07-05 13:44                   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-05 14:00                     ` David Kastrup
2007-07-08 17:36                     ` [RFC][PATCH] " Matthieu Moy
2007-07-08 18:10                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-08 20:34                         ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-08 21:49                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-09  9:45                             ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-13 17:36                             ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-13 17:41                               ` [PATCH] More permissive "git-rm --cached" behavior without -f Matthieu Moy
2007-07-13 17:57                                 ` Jeff King
2007-07-13 18:53                                   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-14  3:42                                     ` Jeff King
2007-07-14  0:44                                 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-14  6:52                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-14  7:16                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-14 10:14                                     ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-02 21:20       ` git-rm isn't the inverse action of git-add Christian Jaeger
2007-07-03  4:12         ` Jeff King
2007-07-03  4:47           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-03  4:59             ` Jeff King
2007-07-03  5:09               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-03  5:12                 ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-07-03  6:26                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-11 12:20     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-11 18:56       ` Jan Hudec
2007-07-11 21:26         ` Junio C Hamano

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