Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 7 authors, 2016-08-11

Re: [RFC] git-add update with all-0 object

From: Jakub Narebski <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-11 19:50:54

Nicolas Pitre wrote:
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
quoted
One thing that I think is non-intuitive to a lot of users (either novice 
or who just don't do it much) is that it matters where in the process you 
do "git add <path>" if you're also changing the file. Even if you 
understand the index, you may not realize (or may not have internalized 
the fact) that what git-add does is update the index with what's there 
now.
And actually I think this is a good thing.  This is what makes the index 
worth it.  Better find a way to make it obvious to people what's 
happening.
Still, perhaps (perhaps!) it would be useful to have "intent to add"
git-add.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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