Re: [PATCH 3/3] git-add --intent-to-add (-N)

From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Aug 21, 2008, 14:23 UTC
Message-ID: <48AD7A78.2020907@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v3akykb96.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> This adds "--intent-to-add" option to "git add".  This is to let the
> system know that you will tell it the final contents to be staged later,
> iow, just be aware of the presense of the path with the type of the blob
> for now.

While I like intent_* in the variables, what about "git add --path FILE" for the user interface? Also, I wonder if it would be good to restrict "git add --path" to paths not already in the index, and give an error otherwise.

As I said elsewhere in the thread, I wouldn't use this feature (I keep a "git citool" window open to review my own changes, when I have to deal with new files), but I applaud its introduction.

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> Then you can do:
> 
>     $ git commit -a ;# commit everything
> 
> or
> 
>     $ git commit oldfile ;# only oldfile, newfile not yet added

Did you mean "git commit" for the second use case?

Paolo