Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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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.

"Dude, you got a stale index hanging out of your trousers."

I find it ridiculous to parade local problems in patches sent out to
the world rather than fixing them, so that old-timers have a chance to
get karma points.

Really: if stale indexes are considered a problem, git should silently
mark the staleness in the file, and the next time (or after three more
times or whatever) the index is used, it is silently regenerated.

Old-timers can get an option disabling this so that they can proud
themselves on cleaning up after themselves consciously, but for the
normal user, this is a bother he can do without.

-- 
David Kastrup