Re: [PATCH] Fix file mark handling and sort side-effects in git.el

[Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>]

Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com> writes:

> Ok, now that makes sense to me. Part of the problem here is that there
> is no statement in the user manual about git.el's intent to hide the
> index. Perhaps something to the effect of "If you are new to using
> Emacs but not new to git, then you need to know that bla bla ...".
> Otherwise, I think users may get tripped up by this as I was. Was
> there a manual in the works for git.el or did I just miss it in recent
> checkins?

There's no manual, and I'm not going to write one, I suck at writing
documentation. If you would like to contribute one it would certainly be
welcome.

> However, the *git-status* buffer does properly reflect the two added
> files by their state being changed to "Added". Since you may have a
> ton of files that are being added, it probably doesn't make a whole
> lot of sense to dump a long message into the minibuffer with all of
> those names.  By the same token, it doesn't make sense to emit one
> message per file either. Instead, would you be willing to change that
> message to just state "Added n files" where "n" is the number of files
> added?

That's exactly what git-success-message already does. The only problem
is that the list isn't always preserved properly (and that's only a
cosmetic bug, the operations get carried out correctly).

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org