From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:31:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Two ideas for improving git's user interface
Message-ID: <87mzhandqt.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <87lkwupsbr.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

* Carl Worth:

> 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.