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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:43:30 +0100 (BST)
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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