Re: [PATCH 2/4] commit: introduce a config key to allow as-is commit with i-t-a entries

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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IIRC, the original motivation of intent-to-add "add -N" was in response to
users who curse Git because they often forget to add new files before
committing, and they wanted to say "Here I have a new file, it is not
complete yet, but I do not want it left out of the commit. While my memory
is fresh, let me tell Git to keep an eye on it, so that it can remind me
if I forget to add the final contents."

I agree with everything up to here.  But I believe these people were
_already_ paying attention to "git status" output from the commandline
and in the editor window when they run "git commit", to notice other
changes they forgot to add, too.  I don't think this series would
inconvenience them.

That means that you are willing to declare that nobody will ever need
"please remind me lest I forget".  Not just the original requestor of the
"add -N" feature, but absolutely nobody else.

Then the deprecation sequence presented in this series is fine.  The
wording to sell that "removal of misfeature" to the end user community
needs to be well thought out, though.