Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] 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.
Hi,
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
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
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
quoted
Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
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.
Perhaps config variable, by default old behaviour if not set?
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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