From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:36:09 GMT
Subject: Re: EasyGit Integration
Message-ID: <7veittjdiu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090609212748.GD13781@atjola.homenet>

Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> writes:

> On 2009.06.09 11:59:08 -0700, Scott Chacon wrote:
>> * adds 'git resolved' for 'git add', which I hear all the time as
>> being confusing
>
> Is "resolve" a plain alias, like "stage", or smart in deciding which
> files it accepts? My gut feeling is that a plain alias might cause
> trouble again when users get lazy and start to do "git resolve ." and
> wonder why that adds new files.
>
> Iff such a "resolve" command is added, it should IMHO only serve the
> purpose of changing the status of index entries marked as "unstaged",
> and do nothing else that "add" can do.

Very good point (modulo s/unstaged/unmerged/ I think).