On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:51:12AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > +static const char *add_would_remove_warning = N_( > > +/* indent for "warning: " */ > > + "In Git 2.0, 'git add <pathspec>...' will also update the\n" > > +"index for paths removed from the working tree that match the given\n" > > +"pathspec. If you want to 'add' only changed or newly created paths,\n" > > +"say 'git add --no-all <pathspec>...' instead.\n"); > > + > > static void warn_add_would_remove(const char *path) > > { > > - warning(_("In Git 2.0, 'git add <pathspec>...' will also update the\n" > > - "index for paths removed from the working tree that match\n" > > - "the given pathspec. If you want to 'add' only changed\n" > > - "or newly created paths, say 'git add --no-all <pathspec>...'" > > - " instead.\n\n" > > - "'%s' would be removed from the index without --no-all."), > > - path); > > + static int warned_once; > > + if (!warned_once++) > > + warning(_(add_would_remove_warning)); > > + warning("did not stage removal of '%s'", path); > > } > > Would "add --dry-run" say this, too? It probably makes sense to continue to have the warning in the dry-run case, but it may make sense to tweak it grammatically when we are in dry-run mode. Saying "would stage removal" is technically correct, but I think it is somewhat ambiguous: would git do it if we were not in a --dry-run, or would git do it if it were Git 2.0? Doing it as: warning: not staging removal of '%s' could work for both cases. Something like "not considering" (or another synonym for "considering") might be even more accurate. It is not just that we did not stage it; it is what we did not even consider it an item for staging under the current rules. Note that the "not staging" warnings may potentially be interspersed with the normal dry-run output. I think that's OK. But another alternative would be to collect the paths and then print: warning: In Git 2.0, ... The following deleted paths were not considered under the current rule. Use "git add -A" to stage their removal now. foo bar -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