From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:14:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] "git add -A/--no-all" finishing touches
Message-ID: <7vhaiuywps.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130425235624.GO29963@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Maybe the warning should happen after add_file_to_index() has run,
> letting git compare the old and new index entries for that path?

Yeah, new and deleted cases we do not have to worry about, so a
no-op add_file_to_index() is the only case we have to be careful.
There is a "if verbose, say 'add %s'" logic in the funciton, so it
should be possible to enhance the API without affecting existing
callers to extract that necessary information out of it.