From: Michel Marti <mma@objectxp.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow git-runstatus to limit its scope to a set of files/directories.
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:44:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47238729.10901@objectxp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710271922340.4362@racer.site>
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Michel Marti wrote:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Michel Marti <mma@objectxp.com>
>> ---
>> IMO, the next step should be to tweak git-status/git-commit: I suggest
>> introducing a new option '--what-if' to 'git-commit' that behaves like current
>> 'git-status [<path>...]' and in return stop 'git-status' from displaying
>> '[<path>...]' as "Changes to commit".
>
> I am not sure this is the correct way to go, since "git status" as a "git
> commit --dry-run" has worked well so far.
Maybe, but current git-status behaviour is somewhat illogical and I'm
pretty sure there are more than a few git-users that were puzzled after
calling "git-status some-dir" for the first time.
> Besides, I would like to see builtin-commit go in as soon as possible, and
> this patch would delay that.
Hmmm, why is that? The patch only touches git-runstatus, invoking
"git-status <path>" will behave as usual.
- Michel
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2007-10-27 18:08 ` [PATCH] Allow git-runstatus to limit its scope to a set of files/directories Michel Marti
2007-10-27 18:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-27 18:44 ` Michel Marti [this message]
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