From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Philip Oakley" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] doc: make clear --assume-unchanged's user contract Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 08:13:16 -0000 Organization: OPDS Message-ID: References: <1417878270-4364-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> <1417878270-4364-2-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> <1418096636.19104.31.camel@segulix> <39592B1FCE234EA58078EBFB34171859@PhilipOakley> Reply-To: "Philip Oakley" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "GitList" , "Junio C Hamano" , "Duy Nguyen" , "Johannes Sixt" , "Michael J Gruber" To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?S=E9rgio_Basto?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 09 09:13:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyFv5-000399-0c for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:13:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751727AbaLIINP convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2014 03:13:15 -0500 Received: from b216.a.smtp2go.com ([216.22.18.216]:36367 "EHLO b216.a.smtp2go.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751013AbaLIINO (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2014 03:13:14 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =46rom: "Philip Oakley" > From: "S=E9rgio Basto" >> On S=E1b, 2014-12-06 at 15:04 +0000, Philip Oakley wrote: >>> Many users misunderstand the --assume-unchanged contract, believing >>> it means Git won't look at the flagged file. [...] > retrospect, so my patch seeks to clarify the existing situation. That= =20 > is "please git, update the index, you can assume these files are=20 > unchanged ... ". =2E.. and if you don't trust me, then you can even go and check=20 [Honestly, you can trust me I'm a developer]" -- the extra bit. Philip