Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index?

From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Jan 16, 2007, 00:34 UTC
Message-ID: <200701160034.l0G0YC5J005016@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701151727310.20138@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:

> An config option to prohibit committing with untracked files should be 
> easy to add.

Right. And that will annoy the heck out of people who have random litter left behind, so their fingers will go "git clean; git commit -a" and then "OOoops!!!". If they can't read the commit message template in the first place, or train their fingers to "git add" new files immediately...

>              If your workflow is such that incorrect commits are sometimes 
> generated given either policy, the system should ask you which you mean.

Leave it alone. At least it will work the same always. Consistency is good.

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