Re: [PATCH 3/3] git-add --intent-to-add (-N)

Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] writes:

... these are actually distinguishable, IIRC, by whether the 
mode bits are set or not, but current code doesn't check that.

IIRC, mode bits all zero means something different, so I do not think that
would fly.  If we really wanted to do this "intent-to-add" properly, we
probably should give one of the flag bits in the in-core index structure.
Unlike on-disk flag bits, they are not scarce resources anymore these
days.