On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> There's a problem. I use git on many machines. Some will have this >> config enabled, some will not (yet). Perhaps a third option, which >> will print something when "git add -u" is issued as a reminder? > > Such a warning would not help you on a machine that does not even have git > with Step 1 change. > > What you conceive as a problem is just a reminder that any incompatible > change you plan to add will have pain involved. ÂOn two machines, one with > a new feature and the other without the new feature, you would have to > work differently _or_ you would train yourself to use both versions in a > compatible way (e.g. when you mean tree-wide, you would cdup, and when you > mean cwd, you would explicitly say ".", from the command line). ÂThat is > not limited to this particular feature but any incompatible change, no? No. But I hoped it would help me somehow, or at least remind me to update git on the machines I touch. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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