From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:06:23 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands. Message-ID: <7v7inkcz2o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Jakub Narebski writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> I think the latter is more important point.  If you train a >> naive user to use --only-tracked to ignore "Untracked" list, you >> are doing him or her a great disservice.  Mistake to forget "git >> add" a new file before commiting will bound to happen. > > If it won't acquire short version, nor tab completion, mosts users when > confronted with such a mothful of option-name wouldn't use it unless > necessary, I think... Yeah, but if we accept that --only-tracked patch, I know from the past experience that people would send a "shorter synonym" patch, arguing that the capability is already there. I really think we should resist temptation to add misfeatures that would encourage bad workflows and new user mistakes.