Re: [PATCH 2/2] rm: introduce advice.rmHints to shorten messages

Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref] writes:

Mathieu Liénard--Mayor wrote:

quoted

I'm not so sure i understand. Do you mean rmHints should deactivate addHints
aswell, or do you mean that since we're introducing rmHints it would be
natural to introduce addHints ?

More the latter, but I'm tilting towards addRmHints (or something)
which affects both add and rm hints.

I don't see why add and rm hints should be correlated, or I don't have
the same advice as you in mind.

$ git add foo.txt
The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
foo.txt
Use -f if you really want to add them.
fatal: no files added

$ git rm foo.txt 
error: 'foo.txt' has changes staged in the index
(use --cached to keep the file, or -f to force removal)

Both have completely different meanings: the first is about .gitignore,
and the second about not loosing data.

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