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Re: git-add --verbose should say when something is already indexed

From
Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date
Dec 29, 2008, 08:52 UTC
Message-ID
<20081229175258.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
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<87eizr32db.fsf@jidanni.org>
Quoting jidanni@jidanni.org:
> git-add or at least git-add --verbose should say upon
> $ git-add bla.txt
> $ git-add bla.txt
> bla.txt is already in the index.
I do not think it should.
I suspect that you misunderstand what "git add" is. It is not about adding a new path to be tracked. Rather, it is to add the current contents of the file (unless --interactive is used).
You told git to add the contents of "bla.txt" to the index as path "bla.txt". I do not think there is anything more to report after it did exactly what it was told to do.
-- 
Nanako Shiraishi
http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/
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