Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> writes: > I'm afraid this approach, while understandable from the technical > standpoint, could prevent git from ever becoming a version control > system that "just works" without any porcelains. > > I know a person who refuses to use any version control. If he > encountered this situation, he would never try any version control > again. > > After all, we are talking about files in the _working_ directory. It's > not merely a transient appendix to the repository. git is not the only > player here. If a file doesn't "belong" to git, it belongs to its > "supreme commander", i.e. the user, and should be approached with utmost > care. I am biased ;-) and appreciate corrections like this. How does the updated patch I just sent out look? - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html