Re: [PATCH] add: introduce add.ignoreerrors synonym for add.ignore-errors

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 1, 2010, 18:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20101201185711.GD27024@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <20101201184659.GA9147@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

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> Yes, looks good to me. You could potentially drop the old one from the
> config:
>
>> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
>> @@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ core.sparseCheckout::
>>  	Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
>>  	linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
>>  
>> +add.ignoreErrors::
>>  add.ignore-errors::
>>  	Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be
>>  	added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors'
>
> which may be less confusing to new users (who might ask "is there a
> difference between the two?").

Right, I prefer to keep it documented for the old and forgetful users (who might ask "why does this configuration work?").

> But I don't have a strong feeling on it, so either way:
>
> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

Thanks again for the help.