On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 04:20:27PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > Certainly my only user has ever been "exec make test". But I wonder if Er, s/user/use. > somebody is crazy enough to auto-generate some content and commit it. > OTOH, shouldn't it then be their responsibility to make the commit? > I.e., I can see at least the potential for mucking with the index, but I > really don't see a reason for _leaving_ the index in a mucked state. Having just read your followup patch, it looks sane. Exec commands are free to do whatever they like with the index as long as it is left in a clean state. That keeps the door open for semi-sane use cases, but will catch unintended index manipulation. -Peff -- 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