Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2013, #05; Mon, 15)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 18, 2013, 21:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20130418214427.GA10119@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvc7j4j0u.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:37:53PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Because this is to help people who are _used_ to seeing "git add"
> not take the removals into account, I doubt that "Did I want those
> updated or not?  Let me see the details of them." will be the
> question they will be asking [*1*].
> 
> I dunno.
> 
> 
> [Footnote]
> 
> *1* "I know I didn't want to include these removals to the index,
> but I learned today that in later Git I should make myself more
> clear if I want to keep doing so; thanks for letting me know.", or
> "I've long been assuming that I have to say 'git add' and 'git rm'
> separately, but I learned today that I can say 'add --all', and in
> later Git I do not even have to; thanks for letting me know." are
> the two reactions I expected.

I am expecting a reaction more like "Hmm, I never thought about it before. Does that make sense to me or not? Let me think about which paths it pertains to and decide".

Which I admit is no more likely than the scenarios you outlined, but it is close to what I thought the first time I saw the warning.

-Peff