From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] git-add update with all-0 object
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:34:58 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611301733460.9647@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611301634080.20138@iabervon.org>
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> One thing that I think is non-intuitive to a lot of users (either novice
> or who just don't do it much) is that it matters where in the process you
> do "git add <path>" if you're also changing the file. Even if you
> understand the index, you may not realize (or may not have internalized
> the fact) that what git-add does is update the index with what's there
> now.
And actually I think this is a good thing. This is what makes the index
worth it. Better find a way to make it obvious to people what's
happening.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-30 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-30 22:08 [RFC] git-add update with all-0 object Daniel Barkalow
2006-11-30 22:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-30 22:34 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2006-11-30 22:41 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-30 22:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-11-30 22:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-01 0:12 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-12-01 4:57 ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-01 6:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-02 8:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-01 7:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-01 8:10 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-12-01 9:37 ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-02 8:35 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-02 8:26 ` Jakub Narebski
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