From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:04:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] doc: make clear --assume-unchanged's user contract
Message-ID: <CD806F4871C843B399611747A4B57035@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <39592B1FCE234EA58078EBFB34171859@PhilipOakley>

From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
> From: "Sérgio Basto" <sergio@serjux.com>
>> On Sáb, 2014-12-06 at 15:04 +0000, Philip Oakley wrote:
>>> Many users misunderstand the --assume-unchanged contract, believing
>>> it means Git won't look at the flagged file.
[...]
> retrospect, so my patch seeks to clarify the existing situation. That 
> is "please git, update the index, you can assume these files are 
> unchanged ... ".
... and if you don't  trust me, then you can even go and check 
[Honestly,  you can trust me I'm a developer]"
--
the extra bit.
Philip