From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
To: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:26:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p2wb4087cc51004231326t1e92a59eg555024eaa4fd51e6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aastx6sa.fsf@frosties.localdomain>
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 15:17, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
> But you are already rejecting it in the design phase before there even
> is a patch.
> ...
> You like that Git is different so don't use the --a-if-empty option. You
> will have lost nothing by allowing that option in. So far I have read
> arguments from people saying they don't want to USE the option. But no
> arguments why there could not be such an option. And I'm not the only
> one that would welcome such an option. Is there no room for a compromise?
My sincere advice is just to write the patch and submit it with an
example usage to illustrate your feature.
Prose aren't well received on this list (especially without concrete
code to reference).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-23 20:27 UTC|newest]
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2010-04-22 15:58 ` Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-22 18:37 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-22 19:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-22 19:08 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-22 20:37 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-22 21:25 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-23 9:03 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 9:31 ` Miles Bader
2010-04-23 16:01 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2010-04-23 20:17 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 20:26 ` Michael Witten [this message]
2010-04-23 20:33 ` Daniel Grace
2010-04-23 21:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-24 21:15 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-24 21:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-24 22:08 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-24 22:42 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-25 2:47 ` Miles Bader
2010-04-25 3:33 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-23 22:35 ` Matthias Andree
2010-04-24 1:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-22 21:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-22 21:40 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-04-22 21:57 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-23 9:09 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 9:22 ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-04-23 17:00 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-23 9:27 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-04-23 9:35 ` Tor Arntsen
2010-04-22 21:48 ` Adam Brewster
2010-04-22 22:27 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-23 9:15 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 10:39 ` The index (Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added) Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-22 22:38 ` Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added Jon Seymour
2010-04-23 0:04 ` Adam Brewster
2010-04-23 9:25 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 9:14 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 9:39 ` Björn Steinbrink
2010-04-23 11:44 ` Sergei Organov
2010-04-23 11:57 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-23 12:20 ` Sergei Organov
2010-04-23 14:23 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-04-23 18:59 ` Matthias Andree
2010-04-23 19:34 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-23 22:18 ` Matthias Andree
2010-04-23 22:25 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-23 23:38 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-24 4:38 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-24 9:05 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-24 9:09 ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-23 23:26 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-24 13:26 ` Tor Arntsen
2010-04-24 9:40 ` 'commit -a' safety (was: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added) Jakub Narebski
2010-04-24 9:56 ` 'commit -a' safety Miles Bader
2010-04-24 10:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-04-24 10:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-24 13:29 ` Miles Bader
2010-04-24 18:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-25 0:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-25 2:43 ` Miles Bader
2010-04-24 11:10 ` 'commit -a' safety (was: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added) Wincent Colaiuta
2010-04-24 11:48 ` 'commit -a' safety Jakub Narebski
2010-04-24 14:28 ` Joey Hess
2010-04-24 15:11 ` Mike Hommey
2010-04-24 16:42 ` 'commit -a' safety (was: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added) Petr Baudis
2010-04-24 16:59 ` Bug#578764: " Wincent Colaiuta
2010-04-24 17:47 ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-24 18:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-24 18:54 ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-24 19:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-24 19:35 ` Jacob Helwig
2010-04-24 19:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-24 19:57 ` Jacob Helwig
2010-04-24 23:47 ` 'commit -a' safety Jakub Narebski
2010-04-25 1:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-25 8:01 ` Jakub Narebski
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