Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>> So I have the slight suspicion that all this will accomplish is "shut the
>>> darn thing up", and old-timers will have a harder time, since they no
>>> longer spot easily when they did a Dumb Thing and left the index out of
>>> sync.
>>
>> The hardest hit would be old-timers who try to be friendly by
>> trying to help new people, who has much less chance to notice
>> and report these much less prominent warnings, over e-mail or
>> irc.
>
> True. It is even bigger than that annoyance to people who know how git
> works.
Perhaps config variable, by default old behaviour if not set?
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Jakub Narebski
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