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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Silent File Mods Being Committed
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:32:58 -0800
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> Dear diary, on Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 06:13:21AM CET, I got a letter
> where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
>>  (2) audit all the scripts to make sure they do not get upset if
>>      we add trailing +/- to the status letter, and do that
>>      unconditionally, like the attached patch does.
>
> Cogito will get upset since we assume the mode field is one-char in our
> regexps, and when we don't, we compare the mode field with strings and
> that would obviously fail if you add random stuff to it.
>
> Otherwise, I like this idea, though.

Likewise.  If it was not obvious, I am not going to commit that
myself.  If jdl or somebody cares enough, he or she can prepare
a a set of patches to git-core, Cogito and StGIT (at least these
three should be covered) to teach them the trailing +/- letter,
_and_ parrot my patch back at me.  Hint, hint...