From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [RFC] git-add update with all-0 object Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:41:53 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gpua9-00082o-68 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:40:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031598AbWK3Wk3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:40:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031601AbWK3Wk2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:40:28 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60344 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031600AbWK3Wk0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:40:26 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GpuZh-0007z8-AQ for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:40:13 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.24.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:40:13 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:40:13 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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 " 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. Still, perhaps (perhaps!) it would be useful to have "intent to add" git-add. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git