Daniel Barkalow wrote: > Of course, we'd still have to disabuse people of the notion that the index > can store the information "there's nothing at this path yet, but I'm > interested in it", because that's a piece of information people often know > before a file is ready, and think git would be able to remember in a > staging area. Well, that was what about the first message in this thread about. Marking a file "interesting" (so 'git commit -a' would pick it up) using all-0 for object hash... which of course requires review and if necessary modification of all core tools which touch the index. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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