From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:53:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change
Message-ID: <C5184350-51A7-46B4-B0C9-E32F79214546@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <20071019034704.GB11095@coredump.intra.peff.net>


On 18 Oct 2007, at 11:47:05 PM, Jeff King wrote:

> The only workflow I can think of is:
>
>   1. you modify a.c
>   2. your boss comes in and tells you to make some unrelated change,
>      which involves moving a.c to b.c
>   3. You don't want to commit your changes, so you git-mv in the index
>      only without involving your dirty working tree file.
>   4. You commit the index (which doesn't have your changes from (1)
>
> I think that is sort of a bogus workflow

Ha!

That's exactly what the original poster wanted.

It's not unreasonable.