Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> IIRC, the original motivation of intent-to-add "add -N" was in response to >> users who curse Git because they often forget to add new files before >> committing, and they wanted to say "Here I have a new file, it is not >> complete yet, but I do not want it left out of the commit. While my memory >> is fresh, let me tell Git to keep an eye on it, so that it can remind me >> if I forget to add the final contents." > > I agree with everything up to here. But I believe these people were > _already_ paying attention to "git status" output from the commandline > and in the editor window when they run "git commit", to notice other > changes they forgot to add, too. I don't think this series would > inconvenience them. That means that you are willing to declare that nobody will ever need "please remind me lest I forget". Not just the original requestor of the "add -N" feature, but absolutely nobody else. Then the deprecation sequence presented in this series is fine. The wording to sell that "removal of misfeature" to the end user community needs to be well thought out, though. -- 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