From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:15:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Short "git commit $file" syntax fails in the face of a resolved conflict
Message-ID: <7viqo64kfo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090123094509.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> writes:

> But Nathan's first sentence is a different matter. I do not think it is
> coming from the same confusion, and I think the question is a valid
> one. Your answer does not explain why it is a bad idea to change the
> behavior of "git commit path" to what "git commit -i path" does during a
> merge.
>
> The answer of course can be "because it changes the behavior people are
> very much used to."

[jc: how many times do I have to ask you to wrap your lines, by the way?]

I tend to agree that "very much used to" argument carries much weight, but
I'll be sending a three-patch series to weatherbaloon the idea.