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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when
 contents are unchanged
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:26:58 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Everybody who takes patches will accept crud afterwards, since the 
> normal thing is to email them around, so there's no real downside to 
> adding some status output at the end. It shouldn't screw anything up, 
> but people will hopefully notice (sure, if you exit the pager without 
> looking at it all you wouldn't notice, but that's _already_ true, so..)

But then, you could output the message _twice_: first possibly in-between 
patches ("WARNING: ...") and then at the end.

However, I have the slight suspicion that people will not even notice.  I 
mean, we had bug reports on merge-recursive, where the reporter failed to 
even acknowledge the fact that merge-recursive said that there were 
conflicts, and even listed them.

So I have the slight suspicion that all this will accomplish is "shut the 
darn thing up", and old-timers will have a harder time, since they no 
longer spot easily when they did a Dumb Thing and left the index out of 
sync.

Slightly negative.

Ciao,
Dscho