From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Sérgio Basto" <sergio@serjux.com>,
"Duy Nguyen" <pclouds@gmail.com>, "Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg.org>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug report on update-index --assume-unchanged
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:18:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvctoi5g.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C082ED21306F4D82BCF6B03D9163836B@PhilipOakley> (Philip Oakley's message of "Fri, 5 Dec 2014 21:55:09 -0000")
"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
> However the man page's statement 'When the "assume unchanged" bit is on,
> Git stops checking the working tree files for possible modifications, so
> you need to manually unset the bit to tell Git when you change the working
> tree file.' can easily be understood the way Sergio has described. Git
> stops checking so it won't notice any changes, which is a contract it
> doesn't keep.
The contract is: when you change the working tree file, you must tell
Git about it. Failure to do so is a breach of the contract.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-05 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-04 22:42 GIT: ignoring changes in tracked files and bug report Sérgio Basto
2014-12-05 6:12 ` bug report on update-index --assume-unchanged Sérgio Basto
2014-12-05 6:55 ` Johannes Sixt
2014-12-05 10:52 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-12-05 16:57 ` Sérgio Basto
2014-12-05 18:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-05 20:48 ` Philip Oakley
2014-12-05 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-05 21:55 ` Philip Oakley
2014-12-05 22:18 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2014-12-06 0:45 ` Sérgio Basto
2014-12-06 13:28 ` Philip Oakley
2014-12-05 21:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-05 21:39 ` Sérgio Basto
2014-12-05 21:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-05 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-05 10:56 ` [PATCH] commit: ignore assume-unchanged files in "commmit <file>" mode Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-12-09 2:44 ` Sérgio Basto
2014-12-11 23:23 ` Philip Oakley
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