Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 09:13 UTC
Message-ID: <86abt25qyw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7v3ayu5scj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> So I have the slight suspicion that all this will accomplish is "shut the 
>> darn thing up", and old-timers will have a harder time, since they no 
>> longer spot easily when they did a Dumb Thing and left the index out of 
>> sync.
>
> The hardest hit would be old-timers who try to be friendly by
> trying to help new people, who has much less chance to notice
> and report these much less prominent warnings, over e-mail or
> irc.

"Dude, you got a stale index hanging out of your trousers."

I find it ridiculous to parade local problems in patches sent out to the world rather than fixing them, so that old-timers have a chance to get karma points.

Really: if stale indexes are considered a problem, git should silently
mark the staleness in the file, and the next time (or after three more
times or whatever) the index is used, it is silently regenerated.

Old-timers can get an option disabling this so that they can proud themselves on cleaning up after themselves consciously, but for the normal user, this is a bother he can do without.

-- 
David Kastrup