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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 10:23:12 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The hardest hit would be old-timers who try to be friendly by
> trying to help new people, who has much less chance to notice
> and report these much less prominent warnings, over e-mail or
> irc.

True.  It is even bigger than that annoyance to people who know how git 
works.

Ciao,
Dscho