From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 21:56:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFD] minor frustration in 'git add' pathname completion
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaUPf=kBCuH__8BahjM3WjSGaijiQr05pMKe+TNdg3W9w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr3ez7dqw.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Discuss.

> For example, I keep
> a backup version of whats-cooking.txt in the working tree that I use
> to manage the 'todo' branch as whats-cooking.txt+, and this is not
> explicitly "ignored".

Completely side tracking thought: Have you considered ignoring
whats-cooking.txt+ locally?

WC+ is a local thing to your repo, so you'd want to prefer
$GIT_DIR/info/exclude over .gitignore.

You wish to ignore WC+ by git, so make it be ignored,
instead of changing the git add rules. Your proposal
feels like fixing the symptoms instead of the root cause.

I can see (3) being useful as it narrows down the list
by a lot, I would imagine.

As I rarely use git add, but prefer git-gui, I have no experience though
for git-add completion, but if you had one conflict after a bad merge
you can just do git add <TAB> to get that file(?), so I guess people use it.

Stefan


>
> Thanks.
>
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