Re: Call Me Gitless

From: Sverre Hvammen Johansen <hvammen@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 21, 2008, 03:40 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20080821T031647-276@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0808181628420.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow <at> iabervon.org> writes:

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> I think that having the possibility of adding an empty blob (or maybe a 
> magical "nothing currently here but git-ls-files includes it") would be 
> preferrable to a no-index mode. That is, the operation that corresponds 
> most directly to "cvs add <filename>" is "git update-index --cacheinfo 
> 100644 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 <filename>", which is not 
> exactly easy to do, and just because a user wants to do this doesn't mean 
> the user doesn't want to use the index; a user that makes extensive use of 
> the index is actually more likely to want the state where a file is 
> tracked but all of the content has not yet been staged.

I think it would be more natural if we had two commands for this; 'add' and 'keep/cache/stage'. The add command would add the file not the content to the index and the keep command would add the content. We could then have an auto-keep option for the add command and an auto-add option for the keep command. By setting both of these options they would give current behaviour for add.

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Sverre Hvammen Johansen