Re: Two ideas for improving git's user interface

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Feb 2, 2006, 12:31 UTC
Message-ID: <87mzhandqt.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <87lkwupsbr.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

* Carl Worth:

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> Here's a fundamental question I have, (and thanks to Keith Packard for
> helping me to phrase it):
>
> 	Is it ever useful (reasonable, desirable) to commit file
> 	contents that differ from the contents of the working
> 	directory?

You mean like "darcs record"? 8-)

I think this is very useful functionality. Granted, it interferes with a rigorous developer-side regression test policy ("all changes must have been built and passed the test suite"). But it encourages things like fixing typos in comments you spot while editing a file for other reasons. And you can keep some ugly debugging code while working on a series of changes.

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