From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:59:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] git-add --intent-to-add (-N)
Message-ID: <7vr68hejca.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0808220023170.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> ... these are actually distinguishable, IIRC, by whether the 
> mode bits are set or not, but current code doesn't check that.

IIRC, mode bits all zero means something different, so I do not think that
would fly.  If we really wanted to do this "intent-to-add" properly, we
probably should give one of the flag bits in the in-core index structure.
Unlike on-disk flag bits, they are not scarce resources anymore these
days.