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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "Jean-François Veillette" <jean_francois_veillette@yahoo.ca>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:43:30 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708021541520.14781@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AF1190E2-A0F4-479F-B0A1-50B2C7278995@yahoo.ca>

Hi,

[please do not top-post.  Either comment on what you quote, or delete it.]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Jean-Fran?ois Veillette wrote:

> Admin it, git porcelain still has some work to be done.

No need to argue there, I admit it.

> We can't expect new users to know the git internals workflow before they 
> can use git effectively.

This use case has not much to do with new users.  A new user _has_ to know 
that updating all files, even if their content does not change, is not 
right.

At least we do not commit empty changes like CVS did all too happily.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-02 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-01 16:17 git-diff on touched files: bug or feature? Matthieu Moy
2007-08-01 17:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-01 19:02   ` Alexandre Julliard
2007-08-01 19:07     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-01 19:17       ` Alexandre Julliard
2007-08-02  9:23   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02  9:51     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02  9:57       ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 10:48         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 14:04           ` Jean-François Veillette
2007-08-02 14:43             ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-08-02 15:10               ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-02 15:23                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 15:45                   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 17:58                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-03  5:37                   ` [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged Steven Grimm
2007-08-03  6:30                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-03 10:23                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-03 20:33                         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-03 21:32                           ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-03 21:50                             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-03 23:01                               ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-03 23:36                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-05 19:42                                   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-05 19:45                                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-05 19:57                                       ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-06 15:56                           ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-08-06 16:10                           ` David Kastrup
2007-08-06 16:16                             ` David Kastrup
2007-08-06 20:05                             ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-06 20:34                               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-07  6:32                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 13:34                                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-07  4:22                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-07  4:37                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-07  6:41                         ` David Kastrup
2007-08-08  3:07                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-08  3:44                           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08  8:26                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-08  8:43                             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08  9:13                               ` David Kastrup
2007-08-08  9:23                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-08  9:58                                 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-07  5:56                       ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-07  5:57                         ` [PATCH] Add a note about the index being updated by git-status in some cases Steven Grimm
2007-08-07  6:35                         ` [PATCH] git-diff: Output a warning about stale files in the index Steven Grimm
2007-08-07  6:46                           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-07  7:17                             ` [PATCH v2] " Steven Grimm
2007-08-07  7:46                               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-07  7:51                                 ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-07  9:04                                 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-11 20:07                               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08  3:42                         ` [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged Linus Torvalds
2007-08-07  6:39                       ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-07  6:47                       ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 20:50             ` git-diff on touched files: bug or feature? Junio C Hamano
2007-08-02  9:54     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-02 10:01       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-02 12:08         ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 12:21           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 19:56           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-03  7:04             ` Jeff King
2007-08-03  7:59               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-03  8:24                 ` Jeff King
2007-08-03  8:57                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-03  8:40                 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-03  9:13                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-02 12:05       ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 12:19         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 12:26           ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 14:39             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 14:49               ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 15:12                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 13:25           ` Joel Reed
2007-08-02 15:05             ` Johannes Schindelin

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