Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 08:43 UTC
Message-ID: <7v3ayu5scj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708080923580.14781@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> So I have the slight suspicion that all this will accomplish is "shut the 
> darn thing up", and old-timers will have a harder time, since they no 
> longer spot easily when they did a Dumb Thing and left the index out of 
> sync.

The hardest hit would be old-timers who try to be friendly by trying to help new people, who has much less chance to notice and report these much less prominent warnings, over e-mail or irc.

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