From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 10:52:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rm: add --intent-to-add, to be used with --cached
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1906241251040.44@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <20190622122417.28178-1-pclouds@gmail.com>

Hi Duy,

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> An index entry serves two purposes: to keep the content to be committed,
> and to mark that the same path on worktree is tracked. When
>
>     git rm --cached foo
>
> is called and there is "foo" in worktree, its status is changed from
> tracked to untracked. Which I think is not intended, at least from the
> user perspective because we almost always tell people "Git is about the
> content" (*).

I can buy that rationale. However, I do not think that "remove intent to
add" (which is how I read `git rm --intent-to-add`) is a particularly good
way to express this. I could see `--keep-intent-to-add` as a better
alternative, though.

Ciao,
Johannes