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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:43:40 -0700
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> So I have the slight suspicion that all this will accomplish is "shut the 
> darn thing up", and old-timers will have a harder time, since they no 
> longer spot easily when they did a Dumb Thing and left the index out of 
> sync.

The hardest hit would be old-timers who try to be friendly by
trying to help new people, who has much less chance to notice
and report these much less prominent warnings, over e-mail or
irc.