Mark Dominus <mjd@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> The current organization of this table may need to be rethought, but if we
>> were to keep it, then this change is far from sufficient. For example, you
>> do not explain what XY = TT means.
> Thanks for your response.
>
> I did not try to document that because in my experimenting I was not
> able to produce that situation.
It is trivial if you realize that X is the change between the HEAD and the
index, and Y is the change between the index and the working tree. Most
importantly, no direct comparison between the HEAD and the working tree
gets in the picture.
$ mv COPYING RENAMING
$ ln -s RENAMING COPYING
$ git add COPYING
$ mv RENAMING COPYING
$ git status -suno
TT COPYING
> Will you be applying the alternative patch you suggested, or would you
> prefer that I try to produce one along those lines?
I dunno.
An obvious alternative is to add T next to all occurrences of M in the
table where we say "M is possible", but unless it is accompanied by an
explanation "T is just a special case of M", I suspect the resulting
description would be harder to understand than currently is, and as long
as the reader understands "T is just a special case of M", then there
isn't much point adding T everywhere M appears in the table anyway, so...
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