From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:24:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow git-runstatus to limit its scope to a set of files/directories.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710271922340.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <1193508519-14140-1-git-send-email-mma@objectxp.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Michel Marti wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Michel Marti <mma@objectxp.com>
> ---
> IMO, the next step should be to tweak git-status/git-commit: I suggest 
> introducing a new option '--what-if' to 'git-commit' that behaves like current
> 'git-status [<path>...]' and in return stop 'git-status' from displaying 
> '[<path>...]'  as "Changes to commit".

I am not sure this is the correct way to go, since "git status" as a "git 
commit --dry-run" has worked well so far.

Besides, I would like to see builtin-commit go in as soon as possible, and 
this patch would delay that.

Ciao,
Dscho