From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:56:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add: introduce add.ignoreerrors synonym for add.ignore-errors
Message-ID: <7vmxopuv1c.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101201185711.GD27024@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Jeff King wrote:
>
>> Yes, looks good to me. You could potentially drop the old one from the
>> config:
>>
>>> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
>>> @@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ core.sparseCheckout::
>>>  	Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
>>>  	linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
>>>  
>>> +add.ignoreErrors::
>>>  add.ignore-errors::
>>>  	Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be
>>>  	added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors'
>>
>> which may be less confusing to new users (who might ask "is there a
>> difference between the two?").
>
> Right, I prefer to keep it documented for the old and forgetful users
> (who might ask "why does this configuration work?").
>
>> But I don't have a strong feeling on it, so either way:
>>
>> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>
> Thanks again for the help.

Thanks, will queue.