From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
	Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 19:27:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4642831C.2090401@midwinter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vzm4dplhu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I obviously agree with this.  As I said a few times I regret
> introducing "add -i" --- it encourages a wrong workflow, in that
> what you commit in steps never match what you had in the working
> tree and could have tested until the very end.
>   
On the other hand, not all changes require any testing at all. For 
example, if you're using git to manage documentation, it is totally 
reasonable to commit a fix for a simple spelling error in one part of a 
file while not committing an in-progress rewrite of another part.
-Steve
next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-10  2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-06 16:10 [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index Matthieu Moy
2007-05-06 16:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-06 17:34   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-06 17:43     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 12:52       ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 13:57         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 14:24           ` [PATCH] git-commit: Reformat log messages provided on commandline Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 14:59             ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-09 15:11               ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 15:32                 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-09 15:01             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-10  0:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-12  0:25               ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-06 18:22     ` [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index Dana How
2007-05-06 23:42     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-06 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-06 18:23   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-06 19:54     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-06 22:53     ` Julian Phillips
2007-05-07  6:35       ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-08  1:41         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-08  7:15           ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-08 10:28             ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-08 12:40               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-08 14:53                 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-09  3:45                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-09  9:40                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-08  7:37           ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-08 14:52             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-06 23:51     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-07  8:02       ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-07 11:05         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 13:07           ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-08  3:16     ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-08  4:45       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-08  5:35         ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-09 13:41         ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 15:52           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-09 16:29             ` Carl Worth
2007-05-11  1:28               ` Jakub Narebski
     [not found]                 ` <7vd518gkyo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2007-05-11 11:26                   ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-11 16:45                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-11 23:06                       ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-12  0:40                         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-12  1:06                           ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-12  9:35                           ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-09 16:33             ` Dana How
2007-05-09 17:18               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-09 17:26                 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 17:29                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-09 17:39             ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-05-09 18:16               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-10  0:31             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-10  2:27               ` Steven Grimm [this message]
2007-05-10  2:39                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-10  8:00                   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-10 22:06               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-10 22:51                 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-08 11:07       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-15  1:00         ` David Kågedal
2007-05-15 23:27           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 17:18     ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-07 11:40 ` Guilhem Bonnefille
2007-05-07 12:16   ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-07 12:36     ` David Kastrup
2007-05-07 12:55   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-07 19:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 13:14     ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-07 22:23   ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-05-15  0:57   ` David Kågedal
2007-05-15  8:29     ` Karl Hasselström
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