Re: [PATCH] git.el: Make it easy to add unmerged files

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Re: [PATCH] git.el: Make it easy to add unmerged files

From: Alexandre Julliard <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:47:20

Martin Nordholts [off-list ref] writes:
(Resending as I managed to mangle the previous patch despite trying not to...)

It is nice and easy to git-add ignored and unknown files in a
git-status buffer. Make it equally easy to add unmerged files which is
a common use case.
That's not quite what adding a file means in git.el, unmerged files are
considered added already, and marking them resolved is done through the
git-resolve-file command. Of course that was implemented before git
overloaded the meaning of git-add to mean git-update-index, so maybe we
should follow the trend and use git-add-file for all index updates. In
that case git-resolve-file should probably be removed.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org

Re: [PATCH] git.el: Make it easy to add unmerged files

From: Martin Nordholts <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:47:20

On 08/30/2009 05:58 PM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Martin Nordholts [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
(Resending as I managed to mangle the previous patch despite trying not to...)

It is nice and easy to git-add ignored and unknown files in a
git-status buffer. Make it equally easy to add unmerged files which is
a common use case.
That's not quite what adding a file means in git.el, unmerged files are
considered added already, and marking them resolved is done through the
git-resolve-file command. Of course that was implemented before git
overloaded the meaning of git-add to mean git-update-index, so maybe we
should follow the trend and use git-add-file for all index updates. In
that case git-resolve-file should probably be removed.
Since git instructs the user to use git-add for marking unmerged files
as resolved ("After resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>' and commit the result.") and
doesn't even mention git-update-index, I think we should change git.el
accordingly.

But why do we need to also remove and disable git-resolve-file from
git.el? It doesn't hurt to keep that function and the keybinding, does
it?

 / Martin
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