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Re: [RFC] git-add update with all-0 object

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 2, 2006, 08:26 UTC
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Daniel Barkalow wrote:
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> Of course, we'd still have to disabuse people of the notion that the index 
> can store the information "there's nothing at this path yet, but I'm 
> interested in it", because that's a piece of information people often know 
> before a file is ready, and think git would be able to remember in a 
> staging area.

Well, that was what about the first message in this thread about. Marking a file "interesting" (so 'git commit -a' would pick it up) using all-0 for object hash... which of course requires review and if necessary modification of all core tools which touch the index.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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Message 15 of 15 in “[RFC] git-add update with all-0 object”
  1. Daniel BarkalowNov 30, 2006
  2. Johannes SchindelinNov 30, 2006
  3. Nicolas PitreNov 30, 2006
  4. Jakub NarebskiNov 30, 2006
  5. Nicolas PitreNov 30, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsNov 30, 2006
  7. Daniel BarkalowDec 1, 2006
  8. Theodore TsoDec 1, 2006
  9. Junio C HamanoDec 1, 2006
  10. Jakub NarebskiDec 2, 2006
  11. Linus TorvaldsDec 1, 2006
  12. Daniel BarkalowDec 1, 2006
  13. Andy ParkinsDec 1, 2006
  14. Jakub NarebskiDec 2, 2006
  15. Jakub NarebskiDec 2, 2006

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