Re: Re* git commit fails under some circumstances

From: Jeff King <peff@github.com>
Date: Apr 6, 2011, 17:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20110406175700.GB8205@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v1v1fjnsu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:24:17AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > I am much more concerned with whether and how this information would be
> > represented in the "git status --porcelain" format.
> 
> I earlier suggested using 'I'; a safer alternative would be to change
> nothing and let the callers figure it out.

Ah, sorry, I missed that.

> I slightly favor the former; while there is a definite risk of
> breaking scripts' expectations, they can be tentatively marked "this
> script does not work until you 'git add' paths you used 'add -N'" and
> I don't think it would be such a big deal.

I think that is reasonable. Maintaining backwards compatibility doesn't mean we can _never_ expand to cover new situations or give more information. In this case we would be maintaining syntactic compatibility, and have identical output when the "add -N" feature is not used.

-Peff