Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?
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- Jean-François Veillette <jean_francois_veillette@yahoo.ca>
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- Aug 2, 2007, 14:04 UTC
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I find comments like this to be counter productive. Admin it, git porcelain still has some work to be done. We can't expect new users to know the git internals workflow before they can use git effectively. We can expect new users to read the man pages, but not necessarely expect them to understand all the plumbing implied by what they read. Here I think M.Moy understand the plumbing and could silently deal with it. But instead he decided to help improve git and decided to raise a flag about inconsistencies he faced. We should never answer request for improvement with ' Just do X and be done with it'. This is a 'geek' answer to a legitime comment.
I know the goal of git is not to reign over the world of vcs, but it's not a reason to refuse to improve it when constructive comments are made about it.
- jfv
Le 07-08-02 à 06:48, Johannes Schindelin a écrit :
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> Hi, > > On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes: >> >>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote: >>> >>>>> If the feature still makes sense in the modern world is a >>>>> different story, but I do find it useful. >>>> >>>> I understand that it can be usefull, but I really don't like >>>> having it >>>> by default (is there a way to deactivate it BTW?). >>> >>> Yes. Just call "git status" and be done with it. >> >> That's not what I mean (my original message mentionned that already >> BTW). By "deactivate", I mean "make git-diff never show empty diffs". >> I don't want to run two commands where I need only one. > > Then don't touch the files you do not want to touch! Or if you > want to > have it convenient, and have a script that touches everything, even > if it > does not change the contents, just add "git add -u" at the end of the > script". Not that difficult. > > Ciao, > Dscho